Muir is one of Team GB’s best medal hopes at the Milan-Cortina Games, and has another shot at the podium when she competes in the big air starting on Saturday.
“I just need to have a moment to process. I don’t want to dwell on it too much,” she said.
“I’ve got at least a day or so until I hit the big air. I’m going to go through this, accept it and try and find the positives that I can from it, and then completely reset because the big air is just a completely different competition.”
Four years ago in Beijing, Scotland’s Muir was GB’s youngest competitor at 17 and finished fifth in the big air and eighth in the slopestyle.
After those Games, Muir achieved three World Cup podiums, but in December 2023 an MRI scan showed she had been competing with a fully torn anterior cruciate ligament (ACL).
An operation followed in early 2024, as well as surgery on a shoulder problem that had troubled her for some time.
Eleven months later she was back on snow, and her maiden World Cup gold arrived in Tignes in March 2025.
Two more have followed this season, as well as slopestyle gold and big air silver at the invitation-only X Games on the eve of the Olympics.
Muir will likely be back at the snow park to watch team-mate and close friend Mia Brookes tackle the snowboard big air final, which starts at 18:30 GMT.
Brookes, one of the biggest names in her sport as a world champion and two-time X Games gold medallist, qualified in third.
Curlers Bruce Mouat and Jen Dodds could secure a place in the gold medal mixed doubles final when they face Sweden in the semi-final in Milan from 17:05.
