At 17, Aberdonian Muir was the youngest member of Team GB at the last Winter Olympics in Beijing in 2022. A lot has happened since then.
She was sidelined for almost a year with a knee injury, a spell out during which she also had shoulder surgery.
However, Muir has not looked back since she got back on her skis, producing a number of fine results that have cemented her status as one to watch.
“During a rehab, you have those nasty thoughts, those doubts of ‘will I come back? Will I come back strong? Will I be able to get back to where I am?’,” she said.
“But I am really stoked with how it worked out and we actually came back a lot stronger and that was my goal through it.”
While coming back stronger was the target, Muir has been surprised by just how well she has done since returning from injury, particularly as she broke a thumb in December.
She took gold at the Big Air World Cup at the Secret Garden in Zhangjiakou, China, in November, then claimed the third World Cup victory of her career by winning the freeski slopestyle event at the US Grand Prix in Aspen in January.
The Scot made the finals in the women’s slopestyle (eighth) and big air (fifth) in Beijing four years ago and a place on the podium this time is not out of the question.
“Absolutely, you have those thoughts,” she said. “I think it would be amazing, but I try not to dwell on it because, again, that is when I start overthinking things.
“I have to put that all to the side and really just focus in on my skiing.”