Kirsty Muir dropped in to a different Olympic remaining along with her favorite Artic Monkeys tune ringing in her headphones.
And the lyric ‘The center of an journey, such an ideal place to start out’ by no means appeared extra acceptable.
These have been a tricky Video games for Group GB, medals have been a bit just like the snow – distinctly brief in provide.
Certainly with 5 days of competitors to come back the scorers have but to be anxious, elevating the prospect of a primary Olympics and not using a medal in three many years … no strain then Bruce Mouat within the males’s curling.
That inquest will begin quickly sufficient however there isn’t a doubt that Muir will survive unscathed, the undisputed breakthrough act of Group GB’s Beijing travellers.
Freestyle skier Muir might be again to highschool subsequent week however admits she’s realized some huge classes from her debut Olympic expertise, as Group GB’s youngest member, aged simply 17, adopted her fifth place within the Large Air with an eighth within the ladies’s slopestyle.
Muir’s silver medal on the Youth Olympics in Lausanne two years in the past underlined her potential, this was a powerful huge stage commencement.
“I used to be blissful to make one other remaining however the total feeling might be nonetheless disappointment,” she stated.
“The women up there have smashed it however I actually hoped I could possibly be within the operating too.
“I’ve realized so much and I’ve obtained so much to work on, this sport is shifting at such a quick price and that provides me the motivation to maintain coaching onerous.”
Along with her tens of millions of followers on social media, China’s Eileen Gu, who scored slopestyle silver so as to add to Large Air gold, helps to lift the profile of the game.
Muir was once more the youngest on this Olympic remaining however Gu is only a few months older – and would be the one to chase because the Olympic countdown resets to Milano-Cortina in 4 years’ time.
“I feel we are able to positively get some extra individuals simply seeing our sport and getting concerned,” stated Muir. “I actually hope some younger individuals can get entangled with it, I hope this possibly impressed them.”
Muir expects she’ll be again at Bucksburn Academy, the place she is learning her Highers, subsequent week.
From flying excessive on the Olympics, and being tweeted on social media by Judy Murray, it’ll be again to earth with a bump.
“I’ve obtained plenty of work to make amends for,” she added.
“That is my final 12 months in class and I’m considering I would take a spot 12 months to concentrate on my snowboarding, we’ll simply see.”
After two seventh locations in her earlier Olympic finals, team-mate Katie Summerhayes was nonetheless smiling after ending one place behind Muir in ninth, Switzerland’s Mathilde Gremaud taking gold.
“I assumed that I may get on that podium,” she admitted.
“However the factor that has modified for me is simply that I had a lot enjoyable, it was a special form of vibe for me. I wished to exit and luxuriate in myself and I really feel like I did that.
“The previous two Olympics I’ve been in tears on the backside and I’m completely cheesin’ now, so I’m actually blissful.”
Summerhayes, now 26, is aware of what it’s prefer to be dubbed the ‘subsequent huge factor’ after changing into the youngest British girl to win a World Cup snowboarding medal aged 19.
However she’s little question Muir has what it takes.
“She will be able to positively be up there on the rostrum,” she added. “She simply must maintain coaching and maintain having fun with it. She is aware of precisely what she must do.”
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