Team USA's Jake Canter won the bronze medal in the men's snowboard slopestyle on Wednesday in his Olympic debut, putting together a huge third run to get onto the podium. 

In his typical fashion, it was never over for Canter. After overcoming multiple injuries, including a traumatic brain injury that left him in a coma and led many to doubt he’d snowboard again, his grit and determination shone through. Sitting off the podium after his first two runs, Canter surged into medal position on his third, delivering an impressive run that earned the second-highest score of the round and third-highest of the day with a 79.36, leapfrogging him onto the podium.

"It makes it all worth it, it's unbelievable," said Canter. "I really just hope I made 13-year-old me laying in that hospital bed proud. This is for him and everyone that's supported me, for my parents who have supported me through everything even when so many doctors told me I'd never ski again. So to be here at the Olympics on the biggest stage in unbelievable." 

China’s five-time Olympic medalist Su Yiming won gold with a score of 82.41, earning his second medal of the 2026 Olympic Games. Taiga Hasegawa of Japan claimed silver with a score of 82.13 in his Olympic debut, while the USA’s Jake Canter rounded out the podium with bronze. 

Team USA had a solid showing in the event, with Red Gerard finishing in sixth place and 17-year-old Ollie Martin earning ninth. Both had strong runs, but some small mistakes, which left them off the podium. 

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Men's Olympic snowboard slopestyle 

The men's snowboard halfpipe final went down Friday night, featuring some of the highest-level riding ever seen in an Olympic contest. Team USA sent three men to the finals, with Jake Pates leading the way in eighth place. Alessandro Barbieri was 10th and Chase Josey 11th. 

It was a crisp, cold night in Livigno, Italy, with thousands of fans crowding the bottom of the pipe, including hundreds of family members, friends, teammates and athletes from other sports. Heading into the evening, the sentiment around the venue was that this event would feature the highest level of riding the Olympics has ever seen - the athletes felt it, the crowd felt it and the world was ready. 

American Jake Pates was the first to drop in the 12 man final and set the tone off early, lacing together an impressive run that included a massive cab triple cork to earn a 77.50. His score held strong throughout the contest and ultimately secured eighth place, matching Pates’ previous Olympic result back in 2018.

Teammate and three-time Olympian Chase Josey was next to drop but couldn’t put together a full pull on his first attempt. Josey’s veteran composure came into play as he stomped his second run clean in front of friends and family cheering him on in the finish. The judges awarded the 'king of switch' a 70.25, good enough for 11th place.

Coming into the final sitting in fourth place, Olympic rookie Alessandro Barbieri stared down the pipe hoping to put on a show for his crew of Italian relatives in attendance. The 17 year old, who became the first American to land a triple in halfpipe competition just last month in Aspen, launched into his second attempt determined to put it down clean after falling on his first run. Despite a full pull, the judges awarded Barbieri with a 75.00 that earned “The Italian Stallion” 10th place in his Olympic debut.

In arguably the most progressive halfpipe final the snowboarding world has ever seen, Japan’s Yuto Totsuka bested Australia’s Scotty James for the top spot on the podium. James took home the silver and Japan’s Ryusei Yamada the bronze.

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Under bluebird skies and in front of an electric crowd, five-time Olympian Faye Thelen raced to seventh place in a stacked women’s snowboard cross Olympic final. Her teammates, including two-time Olympian Stacy Gaskill and Olympic rookies Hanna Percy and Brianna Schnorrbusch, all finished the day inside the top-20, taking 14th, 28th and 19th respectively.

After a relatively disappointing seeding time that placed her 21st in qualifications, Thelen worked her way up through the heats all the way to the quarterfinals, where she joined Gaskill for a chance in the top eight. The two Olympic vets were neck and neck throughout most of the race, but Thelen ultimately came out on top, knocking Gaskill out for the day.

Gaskill, an extremely close family friend of Thelen, took the result in stride, noting after the race that “Faye was racing in what may be her last Olympics and in front of her whole family, which is pretty special. If anyone had to beat me to the line, I’m glad it was her. She deserves to be in the semifinal more than anyone I know.”

Thelen, who decided to come back and attempt to make her fifth Olympics just six weeks postpartum, had her entire family at the bottom cheering her on, including her two young children- 2-year-old Theo and 6-month-old Scarlett.

“Being so recently postpartum I’ve had a lot of fear and up until this moment fear was holding me back. But showing up here and being able to put all of that fear aside and just have fun snowboarding or the first time in a while, it just felt really good.”

Olympic rookies Percy and Schnorrbush had great seeding runs at the top of the day, but early tough heats ended their chances of a spot on the podium. The two walk away with valuable experience in a sport where reps play a huge role.

“I’m just grateful to be here,” said Schnorrbusch. “I had an incredibly tough heat and just to be in the mix with those girls feels great. I’ve never had this many people watch my race, this whole experience has been amazing.”

“I’m definitely leaving here with a lot of positives,” Percy continued. I’m so impressed with all of my teammates, especially Faye. Her two kids are here watching and I couldn’t be happier for her.”

Australia’s Josie Baff stood atop the podium with the gold medal, Czechia’s Eva Adamczyková took silver and Italy’s Michela Moioli earned the bronze.

Snowboard cross action continues at the 2026 Olympic Winter Games with the mixed team event on Feb. 15th.

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Chloe Kim led Team USA to another medal in halfpipe at the Olympic Winter Games, taking home the silver in Livigno on Thursday night.

Korean Gaon Choi took gold with Mitsuki Ono of Japan rounding out the podium in the bronze medal position.

Kim's silver is her third overall Olympic medal after securing Gold in 2018 and 2022.

Team USA’s Bea Kim was eighth and Maddie Mastro finished 12th.

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Nick Baumgartner led Team USA in Men’s snowboard cross with a seventh-place finish at Livigno Snow Park on Thursday. 

Austria's Alessandro Haemmerle took the gold medal, with Canada’s Eliot Grondin winning silver and fellow Austrian Jakob Dusek rounded out the podium, earning the bronze medal. 

Baumgartner’s Team USA teammates Jake Vedder, Nathan Pare and Cody Winters did not advance past the quarterfinals. 

Up next, the women's snowboard cross qualifications and finals are set for Friday.

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Men's Olympic snowboard cross

On a thrilling night at the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games, 17-year-old Ollie Martin delivered a standout performance in the men’s snowboard big air final, just missing an Olympic medal in fourth place. 

Martin, the youngest rider in the event and the only U.S. competitor to advance to the finals, impressed against seasoned veterans. Dealing with a broken arm sustained from a fall in X Games practice just 10 days earlier - in which he had surgery for - the Colorado native showed resilience and determination to compete in his first Olympic games and finish just shy of the podium.

When asked about narrowly missing the podium in a post contest interview, Martin was as optimistic as ever.

"I mean any result is great, fourth is great, third would have been better, but I'm just happy I am out of the contest safe."

"i'm pretty proud of myself," Martin continued. "Just to be able to come this far is pretty cool."

The men’s snowboard big air gold was won by Japan’s Kira Kimura with teammate Ryoma Kimata taking the silver. China’s Yiming Su, the defending Olympic champion from Beijing, claimed bronze.

Reaching the Olympic final on his debut Games is an achievement in itself. A rising star in the snowboard world, Martin gained international attention before the Olympics with top World Cup and World Championships results, including two bronze medals at the 2025 World Championships just last year.

Martin was the only American man to qualify for the big air finals; Jake Canter, Red Gerard and Sean FitzSimons all participated in the qualification round, but did not make it through to finals. The snowboard big air/slopestyle team next competes in snowboard slopestyle qualifications on Feb. 16.

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Men’s Olympic big air

Hydro Flask U.S. Snowboard Team’s Lily Dhawornvej earned her first career World Cup podium on the final day of the 2026 Laax Open with a second place overall finish in the women’s slopestyle snowboard final.

Windy conditions on the Switzerland's Crap Sogn Gion glacier plagued the final day of competition at the storied European World Cup and forced a delayed start time for the women’s snowboard slopestyle final. Dhawornvej watched as teammates and Olympians Dusty Henricksen and Sean FitzSimons dropped into the Snowpark Laax course and battled adverse weather conditions to end the day in ninth and 11th place, respectively. Watching the men’s contest forced event organizers to hold a riders meeting to decide the fate of the women’s competition but a 50/50 split ultimately put the contest in the hands of the judges. After brief deliberation, the contest was a go and more importantly, a decision Dhawornvej favored.

As the fifth overall qualifier, Dhawornvej dropped in the middle of a 10 person field and laced together a heater, going 50-50 boardslide to 50-50 back one out on the top rail section, followed by a switch back five mute, front seven indy, back seven stalefish and a steezy tamedog nose grab on the knuckle feature. Her score of 71.18 held strong throughout the remainder of competition as veteran competitors, like Japan’s Reira Iwabuchi and Mari Fukada, struggled with the day’s conditions.

The often stoic Dhawornvej was overcome with emotions in the finish when she realized she had locked in her first World Cup podium.

“I’m literally crying happy tears right now,” the 17 year old said. “It was a battle with the conditions today but I’m so happy to put one down. And to do it in Laax? I’m just so proud of myself.”

Japan’s Kokomo Murase took first overall and Austria’s Anna Gasser finished third to round out the top three. The men’s podium saw France’s Romain Allemand in first, Japan’s Yuto Kimura in second and China’s Yiming Su in third.

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In a pressure cooker of a World Cup final, two-time Olympian Chase Josey delivered under the lights at the Laax Open and stomped a run worthy of fourth place in one of the most progressive and exciting halfpipe finals to date.

With the Laax Open being the final halfpipe World Cup before the 2026 Olympic Winter Games, it was do or die for the Sun Valley native who found himself on the outside looking in on Olympic qualification criteria  - an unfamiliar position for the seasoned veteran. As Josey stared down the pipe - the same ditch of his first and only World Cup win in 2017 - his Hydro Flask U.S. Snowboard Team teammates held their breath knowing what was on the line for the 30-year-old.

Showing the overwhelming crowd of spectators why he’s the king of switch, Josey stomped the run of his career - a cab double cork 12, followed by a switch double michalchuk, to a cab double cork 10, followed by a front double cork 12 and a massive double michalchuk for good measure.

Josey’s score of 75 flat held strong in podium position until the young Kiwi sensation Campbell Melville Ives became the first rider to ever drop two triple corks in one completed contest run. Melville Ives’ score of 91.00 catapulted him into the top spot.

But last to drop was the Australian hero Scotty James, who donned his signature red boxing gloves and put on a show under the lights, taking home his fifth Laax Open title with a second run score of 98.75. Valentino Guseli rounded out the podium in third to cement the first Oceania podium sweep in FIS history.

Josey’s fourth-place finish puts him in position to qualify for the 2026 Milano Cortina Olympic Winter Games, which will be announced Jan. 23.

Joining Josey in the 2026 Laax Open halfpipe final was Alessandro Barbieri, who became the first American to land a triple cork in a complete halfpipe run at the Toyota U.S. Grand Prix in Aspen, Colorado just one week prior. Barbieri was unable to put down a run in the Laax Open final, but the young 17-year-old proved once again he is an exciting rider to watch heading into the games.

Two-time Olympian Maddie Mastro was the sole American in the women’s field, but took an uncharacteristic fall on her signature double crippler that ended her chances of back-to-back Laax Open podiums. Mastro took home second place in 2025's Laax Open and made history doing so, becoming the first woman to land two double corks in one contest run. Tough as ever, Mastro returned to the top of the pipe for her second run and put down a conservative run good enough for ninth place overall. Having fought the entire 2025-26 season to comeback from multiple injuries, the Laax Open night final served as a confidence builder for the 25 year old who has her sights set on the 2026 Winter Olympic Games.

Korea's Gaon Choi took home the Laax Open title - her third World Cup win in a row - and Japan's Rise Kudo and China's Xuetong Cai rounded out the podium with second and third place, respectively.

The snowboard halfpipe roster for the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympic Games will be announced next week on January 23.

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