LIVIGNO, Italy (AP) — A backside double cork 1080! Followed by a cab triple cork 1440! Holy Crail, that was a sweet grab! The snowboarders and freestyle skiers will be speaking a language all their own as they “shred some gnar” (ride some gnarly conditions) at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics.

Eliot Grondin searches for the only Olympic medal shade that's eluded him in snowboard cross: gold. Italian Michela Moioli could become the host country's hero as the gold medal favorite in the women's contest.

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

The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here. For the last two Olympic cycles, the women's halfpipe was all about Chloe Kim. On this night in Italy, though, it wasn't about Kim anymore.

Chloe Kim denied a third straight Olympic gold in snowboard halfpipe, finishing second to Choi Gaon of South Korea.