These are the criteria judges take into account to score halfpipe, slopestyle and big air snowboarding at the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics.

Slopestyle: A course located on a slope where snowboarders and freestyle skiers take turns trying to put together the most polished and demanding series of tricks coming off rails and molded bumps for aerial lift. The Livigno slopestyle course allows for jumps that can exceed 25 meters (27 yards).

By Giulia Segreti and Lisa Richwine LIVIGNO, Italy, Feb 3 (Reuters) - American Chloe Kim will aim for a third straight halfpipe gold medal as the Olympic snowboarding competitions begin on Thursday, promising breathtaking tricks and intense racing in the northern Italian town of Livigno.

Chloe Kim arrives at the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics on the brink of a historic third straight women's halfpipe gold, her decade-long snowboard dominance defined by as many twists as her gravity-defying tricks.

Though snowboarding loves to flaunt its massive jumps and daring flips, it’s the ability to spin four ways — riding forward and backward, then spinning either clockwise or counterclockwise from either direction — that is considered one of the sport’s holy grails.

Following the final snowboarding event at the Olympics, one question remains: what’s next for the sport? During these Games, Chris Corning threw down the first quad cork in big air and Ayumu Hirano landed the first triple cork 1440 in the halfpipe at the ...

Inspired by witnessing Chloe Kim's historic gold medal run at the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics, halfpipe snowboarder Bea Kim has taken that spark and crafted it into a successful career as she prepares for her own Olympic debut at the Milan Cortina Games.