LIVIGNO — It’s hard not to feel sorry for Kirsty Muir. The Aberdonian is only 21 years old, but now a veteran of four Olympic finals and yet to wear a medal around her neck. Twice at Milan-Cortina 2026, she has finished fourth, the worst position of all.
After missing out by 0.41 points in the slopestyle last week, she had hidden the tears behind her huge ski goggles, although her reddening nose, cracking voice and trembling lip gave it away.
Seven days later, she put the goggles on her forehead and faced up to the pain with her whole heart. She still got emotional, especially when talking about having her family there to watch, but there was no hiding it. Muir was sad and proud, and that was fine.
‘A little bit bittersweet’
It was a performance, on and off the snow, that made you believe she has a golden future at these Games, and has many more to come.
“I’m a bit up and down at the moment,” said Muir.
“I’m not really sure how to feel. I put it all out there so I’m really proud of that. On the third run, I went for a trick I haven’t landed before so I gave it my all and I’m taking that with me.
“It’s a little bit bittersweet but I came into this competition today feeling really grateful and I think I’m still at that point.”
A fantastic effort ends in heartbreak for Kirsty Muir. It’s a second fourth-place finish at the Games for the 21-year-old. pic.twitter.com/GnDBOo7RFX
— BBC Sport (@BBCSport) February 16, 2026Her great friend and team-mate Mia Brookes also has a fourth place to her name, a teenage prodigy like Muir was in Beijing, but this she did not even qualify for a second final after falling twice in prelims, almost unheard of from the girl who became snowboarding’s youngest ever world champion in 2023.
This is only 19-year-old Brookes’s first Olympics, whereas Muir has the advantage of experience. A 17-year-old in Beijing and the youngest member of Team GB, she reached the final of the big air and the slopestyle, results that convinced her to delay plans to go to university and instead pursue a career on the freestyle circuit.
She was absolutely right to do so to, winning two bronzes at X Games the year after her Olympic debut, but then suffered a torn ACL that took her off skis for 10 months during 2024.
It was her longest period away from the slopes since she had been eight or nine years old, and she was determined to use the time for personal growth.
‘Naive and nervous’
At her first Olympics, she admits she was “a little naive, I was nervous, shy and kind of different”. The 21-year-old is now a relative senior figure in the freestyle team, where you can barely move for teenagers.
Such a role also comes with some pressure, which can only have ratcheted up as the free-skiers were forced to wait out a blizzard on the mountain to start the Big Air final. The delay was, in the end, an hour and a quarter, and did for Mathilde Gremaud, the Swiss bronze medallist from Beijing and double slopestyle gold medallist: she endured a nasty fall in the brief warm-up for this final and had to pull out with a hip injury.
Conditions had eased but snow was still falling, putting even more pressure on early efforts when the jump would be freshest. Muir decided to land a banker, going “just” 1080 (a triple spin) to go seventh after one run. But having qualified fourth and with Gremaud out, there was a significant opportunity for a medal waiting for her.
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And if she had gone safe with her first, Muir left nothing to chance with her second, nailing a 1620-degree spin to record the second-highest score of the competition to that point. By the end of first two runs, she was in silver medal position.
But such is the rollercoaster of professional sport. Eileen Gu, world-beater that she is, leapfrogged her into silver despite not having competed in this discipline for four years. Then Flora Tabanelli roared on by a home crowd, produced the jump of her life to claim bronze.
Muir put it all out there to try and respond with a new trick, but couldn’t land it. She will try it again. And in 2030, she will return a veteran. Surely, with a medal on her mind.
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