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James Toney in Beijing

Aberdeen teenage sensation Kirsty Muir soars to stunning fifth-place finish in Beijing Big Air at Winter Olympics

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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