In a last that demonstrated the energy of ladies’s freestyle snowboarding, Mathilde Gremaud efficiently defended her Olympic title by solely 0.38 factors.

China’s Eileen Gu – the world’s fourth highest-paid feminine athlete in 2025 however arguably a much bigger star off the slopes by her modelling and model endorsements – took silver, however crashed on her last run to permit Gremaud a victory lap.

Gremaud soaked up her second, a Switzerland flag tied round her neck and billowing within the wind as she floated down the course.

Muir is one among Workforce GB’s greatest medal hopes on the Milan-Cortina Video games, and has one other shot on the podium when she competes within the large air beginning on Saturday.

“I simply have to have a second to course of. I do not wish to dwell on it an excessive amount of,” she stated.

“I’ve bought a minimum of a day or so till I hit the large air. I’ll undergo this, settle for it and try to discover the positives that I can from it, after which fully reset as a result of the large air is only a fully totally different competitors.”

4 years in the past in Beijing, Scotland’s Muir was GB’s youngest competitor at 17 and completed fifth within the large air and eighth within the slopestyle.

After these Video games, Muir achieved three World Cup podiums, however in December 2023 an MRI scan confirmed she had been competing with a completely torn anterior cruciate ligament (ACL).

An operation adopted in early 2024, in addition to surgical procedure on a shoulder drawback 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.

Muir will doubtless be again on the snow park to observe team-mate and shut pal Mia Brookes deal with the snowboard large air last, which begins at 18:30 GMT.

Brookes, one of many largest names in her sport as a world champion and two-time X Video games gold medallist, certified in third.

Curlers Bruce Mouat and Jen Dodds might safe a spot within the gold medal blended doubles last after they face Sweden within the semi-final in Milan from 17:05.