Teenage skiing sensation Kirsty Muir letting out her talented Winter Olympic secret at Beijing 2022

For those in the know Kirsty Muir has been British skiing's next big thing for a while but now the secret is truly out.

Freestyle skier Muir, 17, qualified seventh for Tuesday's first ever women's Olympic Big Air final but seemed to be holding something in reserve.

Her first run - a dizzying two flips with one-and-a-half degrees rotation off a 50m ramp going 60mph - banked the second highest score of any competitor and some nods of recognition from experienced hands.

That meant she could ease off with her next two qualifying attempts with a place in top 12 all but secure – and in the final it’ll be gloves, or more accurately mittens, off.

"That's my best trick, the DUB 12, and I wanted to land it on my first run," she said.

"I had a crash in practice with it, so I’m really stoked to have done it clean.

"I’m so happy and just really excited to be in the finals. It's a dream come true, I just can't believe it. My first Olympics, my first Olympic final, that’s everything I wanted.”

Shadowed by five industrial cooling towers in the grounds of a former steel mill, Big Air Shougang is the world's first permanent venue for these flying tricksters, an urban setting for the X-Games generation.

And the youngest member of Team GB certainly gave the impression of just enjoying her Games debut, free from the weight of expectation and just embracing the experience.

Four years ago, she was already considered the best in Britain but watched the Olympics on her phone in the back of her parents car as they drove through Aberdeenshire.

She was gripped as Switzerland's Sarah Hoefflin and Mathilde Gremaud slugged it out for slopestyle gold, now she'll take them on in the Big Air final - after her spinning, twisting first run scored 89.25,