Winter Olympics: ´Super happy' Kirsty Muir, 17, soars to fifth place in Big Air final to surpass expectations

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Kirsty Muir was high-flying in Beijing, the quiet girl of the Big Air underlining her status as something of an even bigger noise.

Muir, just 17, is the youngest member of the British team in China but her fifth place finish in the freestyle skiing Big Air final certainly didn't shock her coaches, even if she appeared a little shell-shocked by it all.

On a course shadowed by cooling towers, on the site of a former steel works, this Scot may not have a medal but she’s certainly got metal.

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It's just 14 years since she first strapped on skis at the Aberdeen Snowsports Centre but Muir has long been on the fast track to success.