Sochi profile #6: Baby Olympian moguls skier Britt Cox grows up Champion mogul skier Britt Cox. EVERY Olympics, summer and winter, there are always a few young Aussies who are sent over purely for the experience. No one ever admits that, of course. It's like the way racehorse trainers will never say their horses are just having a bit of a warm-up run. But when Britt Cox went to Vancouver to ski moguls when aged just 15, having qualified with a best World Cup result of 29th, it was pretty obvious she was just there to learn. Safe to say she passed that lesson with flying colours. The girl who was Australia's youngest Winter Olympian in 50 years, and the youngest athlete from any nation at Vancouver, is now a 19-year-old woman with a serious medal chance in Sochi. Cox grew up in Mt Beauty in the Victorian High Country. Her home ski mountain is Falls Creek, which is one of the few resorts left where moguls are still a huge part of the local ski scene. If snow sports aren't your thing, you might not understand what moguls are. Basically they're big natural bumps that form on the slopes, carved by countless skiers and snowboarders. Huge snow-grooming machines, like giant bulldozers, squash the moguls each night, leaving the slopes smooth and easily skiable. But not every slope. The summit run at Falls, visible clearly from the car park, is still a bumpy hell for most skiers. Then again, for people like Britt Cox it's a bumpy heaven. Cox won her first moguls competition at Falls Creek aged just eight and has excelled at the knee-churning sport ever since. Her breakthrough performance came in 2012, when she finished third in a World Cup podium event at Deer Valley, USA, making her the first Aussie woman to win a major moguls medal. Cox's performances this year are solid without being spectacular. But she's had four top 10s against Olympic-standard fields and has two strong factors on her side. One factor is the presence of the mysterious one, Dale Begg-Smith, who has returned to the Australian setup after three years running his business in the distinctly unsnowy surrounds of Grand Cayman Island. Cox has been training alongside Begg-Smith and says she is "blown away" by his ability. Though notoriously curt with the media, Begg-Smith is famously generous with his advice to teammates. His advice has got to be helping Britt Cox. The other factor in Cox's factor is that Olympic experience from Vancouver. Ask any athlete and they'll tell you there's nothing quite like the hustle and bustle and hype of the Olympic environment. With security precautions in Sochi that will make everybody's days long and tortuous, these games will be as much about state-of-mind as athletic ability. This calm, self-assured young veteran of Vancouver might be well poised to ensure her bumpy ride is a smooth one - all the way to the podium. Sochi 2014 only on Ten from February 7-24.