Snowboarding at 2026 Winter Olympics: How it works, competition schedule

Ready to catch big air? Look no further than snowboarding, one of 16 sports to be contested at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy.

Winter Olympics: Team GB's Mia Brookes surges into women's snowboard big air final

Mia Brookes blasted into the Olympic women's snowboard Big Air final on Sunday night, while Bruce Mouat and Jennifer Dodds suffered their first defeat.

Ester Ledecka fails to retain Olympic title, hits out at IOC over snowboard event’s future

LIVIGNO, Italy — On a day when she failed to retain her Olympic title after a surprise loss in the quarterfinals of the women’s parallel giant slalom, Ester Ledecka strongly criticized the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for even considering scrapping the event at the next Winter Olympics.

Japan extends its snowboard power to big air

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Japan extends its snowboard power to big air with a 1-2 Olympic finish
LIVIGNO, Italy (AP) — That ever-growing bench of Japanese snowboarders runs deep. Jumps very high, too. The country that has steadily been asserting mastery over the halfpipe took that show to the Winter Olympics big air contest Saturday night,

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Japan extends men's snowboarding big air dominance at Olympics
Japan's Kimura and Kimata take gold and silver in men's snowboarding big air at Winter Olympics
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This is 40: Austria’s Karl becomes oldest individual gold medalist in Winter Olympic history

Who says you can't win Olympic gold at 40? Austrian Benjamin Karl's victory in the men's Alpine snowboarding parallel giant slalom (PGS) made him the oldest individual champion in the history of the Winter Games.

Kira Kimura Wins First Snowboard Gold Medal Of 2026 Winter Olympics

The first snowboarding event of the 2026 Winter Olympics is in the books. Japan’s Kira Kimura, making his Olympic debut, took gold in men’s big air on Saturday.

How to Watch 2026 Winter Olympic Snowboarding Events Online

All of the 2026 Winter Olympics will be available to stream on Peacock, while NBC and USA will show Snowboarding on TV. If you want to watch snowboarding online, you can subscribe to Peacock or get a live TV streaming service that carries NBC and USA.

How snowboarding rose to become an Olympic sport (Fresh Air+)

The XXV Winter Olympics are taking place in Milan, and snowboarding will begin its events this weekend. In this archive Fresh Air interview from 1998, Jake Burton Carpenter — the founder of Burton Snowboards and one of the inventors of the modern snowboard — spoke to Terry Gross about the sport’s Olympic debut in Nagano that year,

Australian snowboard pair go big to make Winter Olympics final

Australia will have two snowboarders in the women’s big air Olympic final for the first time with Meila Stalker and Tess Coady in the hunt for the medals

Canada's McMorris takes nasty fall and is stretchered off in pre-Olympic snowboard training

LIVIGNO, Italy (AP) — Canada's three-time Olympic bronze-medal snowboarder Mark McMorris crashed Wednesday night during big air training for the Milan Cortina Games and had to be taken off the course on a stretcher.

U.S. Ski Chief's Blunt Admission About Lindsey Vonn's Injury After Winter Olympics Crash

Lindsey Vonn’s comeback ended in a crash at the 2026 Winter Olympics. U.S. Ski chief Anouk Patty says her recovery will be a long process after surgery.