Paralympic skiing star Millie Knight reveals why her career is on a knife-edge after Beijing 2022

Millie Knight fears for her skiing future as she panics at the prospect of replacing long-term guide Brett Wild.

The visually impaired star, 23, has racked up four Paralympic medals alongside Wild since 2018 but the pair raced together for the final time in Beijing last weekend as they finished eighth in the slalom.

Knight and Wild, 29, first united in 2016 but after bolstering their Paralympic medals – including downhill bronze last weekend – with six World Championship podiums, Glaswegian Wild is moving on to pursue a career as a Royal Navy officer.

Knight knows Wild has been her rock for the last six years and admits her career is on a knife-edge as she looks to rebuild ahead of Milan-Cortina 2026.

“Before Brett, I had hundreds of guides and finding the right one was very, very difficult,” said the Kent speedster.

"It took a long time – I’m not looking forward to having to go through that again, and it’s quite unsettling.

“We’ve made a lot of progress together, even in the last couple of months, so to keep that momentum going with a new guide is going to be difficult.

“Hopefully there’ll be somebody who will want to put up with me – I’m not ready to move on just yet.

“I don’t really know what I’m going to do without Brett to be honest - I’ll be lost for a little while and it will be challenging.”

Knight and Wild followed up their brilliant bronze with fourth-place finishes in the Super-G and Super Combined before top tens in the technical slalom events brought their journey to an end.

The dynamic duo first joined forces at a camp in Stubai, Austria, back in 2016 and hit it off immediately before taking the following year’s World Championships by storm.

Knight had already become the youngest athlete to represent