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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Sadowski-Synnott and Murase are the returning silver and bronze medalists from the 2022 Beijing Olympics, while Brookes, 19, is competing in her debut Games.

With the Olympic snowboard parallel giant slalom competitions approaching on Sunday, riders are wondering whether they will be racing in the discipline's last appearance at a Winter Games as a review by the International Olympic Committee looms.

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,

Austrian snowboarder Benjamin Karl knew exactly what he would do if he won a gold medal at this year’s Winter Olympics; what he hadn’t planned for was the reaction from the rest of the world.

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.

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.

Three former Team USA snowboarders filed a lawsuit in Utah court against former Olympics coach Peter Foley and U.S. Ski & Snowboard almost exactly four years after allegations of sexual abuse by Foley became public during the 2022 Beijing Winter Games.