Kirsty Muir picked herself back up in valiant fashion to qualify for the women's freeski big air final in comfortable fasion.
The 21-year-old missed out on the slopestyle podium by just 0.41 points less than a week ago, and the result hit hard.
But where one door closes, another opens.
The freestyle skier from Aberdeen replaced slopestyle tears with big air smiles as she recovered from a fourth-place finish to qualify for her second final of Milano Cortina 2026 on Monday.
Muir clinched her first ever big air World Cup victory back in November and X Games silver less than a month ago, and admitted that she was putting the past behind her as she gears up for another Olympic showdown.
"I am just forgetting about it [slopestyle], it's in the past now and I am onto this event," she said.
"I'm just focussing all on this. I had a really good evening of skiing, felt great in practice, stoked to put my runs down in qualis and excited for the finals.
"I took a day. I had a nice day that I could process it before I started big air training. Pretty quickly we started big air training but I had a day to go through it in my head.
"There has been a lot of love. Although it was a fourth and I wanted more, it is still fourth in the world on the Olympic stage. I had a lot of love and a lot of support so I am very thankful for that."
There wasn't a hint of nerves as Muir dropped in for her first run in Livigno, with a double cork 1440 putting her in second place behind Canada's Megan Oldham, the very woman who beat her to slopestyle bronze, who laid down the biggest score of the day with 91.25.
Her dub 10 to score 79.00 then sealed the deal, with no improvement on her third leaving her on a score of 166.50.
Oldham tops the standings, with reigning Olympic champion Eileen Gu in second and back-to-back slopestyle champion Mathilde Gremaud in third.
It means that Monday's slopestyle podium once again leads the way, and so Muir will have a tough gig on her hands if she plans to usurp their ranks and try to finally clinch her maiden Olympic medal.
"These are really nice jumps, I've been feeling really good on it and I am just excited for finals," she said.
"We're all just going to try and put our best tricks out there. I am excited for that. All the girls competing are amazing and I am just stoked to be competing in a final with them.
"I am just inspired by their drive and them pushing women's skiing. When it's a competition, I just have to focus on my own skiing."
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