On Sunday, the 30 best female snowboarders in the world put on a show in the 2026 Winter Olympics women's big air qualifier, with 12 advancing to Monday's final.

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Team USA’s Ollie Martin, a 17-year-old high school senior from Colorado, is among the 12 qualifiers for the final round.

Zoi Sadowski-Synnott finished as the top qualifier in the women's snowboarding big air at the 2026 Olympics with a total score of 172.25.

The men’s snowboard big air final takes the spotlight Saturday, with riders launching off massive jumps as medals are decided in the trick-based event.

Olympics broadcaster Todd Richards called the men's snowboard big air final "so boring" on a hot mic on Feb. 7, and later explained why he thought so in an Instagram video.

NBC's drone cameras amaze Olympic fans during skiing, snowboarding, luge and more; sound annoys some originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here. During the earliest events of the 2026 Winter Olympics, viewers of the NBC family of channels may notice small drones whirring around.

Synnott, Japan’s Kokomo Murase and Great Britain’s Mia Brookes secured the top three spots in Sunday's qualifying round.

A rash of injuries in the leadup to the Winter Olympics have brought into sharp focus the risk that snowboarders and freeskiers take by flipping and twisting above rock-hard slabs of snow for a living.