“It’d been a goal of mine for so long, so to achieve it after everything that happened [in 2024] felt really good,” she says of that first World Cup win last March. “It showed that I can actually come back stronger.”
She summed up her most recent win in Aspen, which came just a month after breaking her thumb, by saying: “I’m just very stoked with how I’m skiing.”
Muir has hit top form at a time when women’s freestyle skiing is pushing new frontiers. At the 2023 X Games, Canada’s Megan Oldham became the first woman to land a “triple cork 1440” in the Big Air – a trick which involves performing four full rotations and three off-axis flips in the air.
At Milan-Cortina, landing another dub 16 is on Muir’s bucket list and she says: “I want to add more style into my tricks, like grabs, because that’s quite a big part of our sport too. We’ve got to make it look good, as well as doing the big tricks.
“Bring backs are coming in – that’s a rotation and then stopping your body and bringing it back in the other direction, which is pretty difficult. There’s a lot of different directions for the sport still to go in and there’s a lot of stuff that I’m working on at the moment.”
