Teen star Kirsty Muir takes on the 'Snow Princess' again this weekend with dad Jim insisting she will show no fear.
Team GB’s youngest athlete finished fifth behind superstar Eileen Gu in the Big Air despite being just 17 and it being her Olympic debut.
Now she turns to her specialist event, freeski slopestyle, and her family back in Aberdeen say she will relish the rematch.
Jim said: “Kirsty has always had that sense of, not being fearless, but definitely willing to take the risk - right from her early days up Glenshee.
“I remember watching this pretty big jump being made and all the snowboarding and skier dudes lying in the snow to see who would be the first one to flight it.
“Jimmy, her older brother, said ‘Kirsty will do it’ and with that she stood up. I was thinking ‘I should stop this’, but I let her go and she stormed it.
“She was eight! That said everything about her.”
Muir senior, at home recovering from COVID, had that same slightly uncomfortable feeling watching his daughter’s last jump on Tuesday.
“I have to be honest,” he said. “I was half thinking ‘save yourself for slopestyle’ as that is her stronger event.
“But Kirsty went for it. She attacked it, didn’t go safe, didn’t let the nerves get to her. Absolutely great, I’m so proud. Chuffed as anything.”
Slopestyle qualifying is Sunday with the final at Genting Snow Park on Monday morning.
“You have to remember our British athletes have come from the dry slopes,” Muir senior added. “They are not on a mountain all the time. To get to where Kirsty is, it is huge.”
