A 17-year-old Scottish skier who is currently in Beijing to compete in the Winter Olympics has won a prestigious youth award.
A 17-year-old Scottish skier who is currently in Beijing to compete in the Winter Olympics has won a prestigious youth award. K irsty Muir, from Aberdeen, has been crowned the eighth winner of the Scottish Youth Award for Excellence in Mountain Culture for her freestyle skiing. The award celebrates adventurous young people and the outdoor pursuits in which they excel. Muir has been noted for big air, a sport when skiers/snowboarders slide down a high ramp that curls up at the end and shoot themselves into the sky while doing tricks and twists. She also performs slopestyle, which involves tricks and jumps on a sloping course with multiple ramps and obstacles, and halfpipe – in which competitors perform a series of tricks while going down a pipe. She won silver in the freeski big air competition at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games in Lausanne, Switzerland – a moment considered the biggest breakthrough in her career so far.
