Scottish skiing sensation Muir reveals the secret soundtrack that fired her to Winter Olympic success

Kirsty Muir dropped in to another Olympic final with her favourite Artic Monkeys song ringing in her headphones.

And the lyric 'The middle of an adventure, such a perfect place to start' never seemed more appropriate.

These have been a tough Games for Team GB, medals have been a bit like the snow - distinctly short in supply.

Indeed with five days of competition to come the scorers have yet to be troubled, raising the prospect of a first Olympics without a medal in three decades … no pressure then Bruce Mouat in the men’s curling.

That inquest will start soon enough but there is no doubt that Muir will survive unscathed, the undisputed breakthrough act of Team GB's Beijing travellers.

Freestyle skier Muir will be back to school next week but admits she's learned some big lessons from her debut Olympic experience, as Team GB's youngest member, aged just 17, followed her fifth place in the Big Air with an eighth in the women's slopestyle.

Muir's silver medal at the Youth Olympics in Lausanne two years ago underlined her potential, this was an impressive big stage graduation.

"I was happy to make another final but the overall feeling is probably still disappointment," she said.

"The girls up there have smashed it but I really hoped I could be in the running too.

"I've learned a lot and I've got a lot to work on, this sport is moving at such a fast rate and that gives me the motivation to keep training hard."

With her millions of followers on social media, China's Eileen Gu, who scored slopestyle silver to add to Big Air gold, is helping to raise the profile of the sport.

Muir was again the youngest in this Olympic final but Gu is just a few months older - and will be the one to chase as the Olympic countdown resets to