In a last that demonstrated the power of girls’s freestyle snowboarding, Mathilde Gremaud efficiently defended her Olympic title by solely 0.38 factors.
China’s Eileen Gu – arguably an even bigger star off the slopes – took silver, however crashed on her last run to permit Gremaud a victory lap, a Switzerland flag tied round her neck, billowing within the wind as she soaked up her second on the course.
Muir is one among Group GB’s greatest medal hopes on the Milan-Cortina Video games, and has one other shot on the podium when she competes within the huge air beginning on Saturday.
4 years in the past in Beijing, Scotland’s Muir was GB’s youngest competitor at 17, however she completed fifth within the huge air and eighth within the slopestyle.
After Beijing Muir achieved three World Cup podiums, however in December 2023 an MRI scan confirmed she had been competing with a totally torn anterior cruciate ligament (ACL).
An operation adopted in early 2024, in addition to surgical procedure on a shoulder downside that had troubled her for a while.
Eleven months later she was again on snow, and her maiden World Cup gold arrived in Tignes in March 2025.
Two extra have adopted this season, in addition to slopestyle gold and massive air silver on the invitation-only X Video games on the eve of the Olympics.
“I will look ahead to huge air, however I simply must take this one in,” Muir mentioned.
“I acquired to see my famly. They have been hugging me a bit too tightly – I used to be getting a bit claustrophobic. They’re happy with me it doesn’t matter what, so I can take that away.”
