From Chloe Kim to Scotty James, these eight halfpipe snowboarders are all threats to make the podium at the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics.

LIVIGNO, Italy (AP) — It seems only right that the snowboarder with the reputation as his sport's highest flyer has a chance to win an Olympic medal in the event called big air. Valentino Guseli, an Australian whose grandparents are from Italy,

The Winter Olympics are a bit of an enigma to most sports fans in the United States. The average person has seen hockey, the understand figure skating, and we get enough extreme sports through osmosis that the snowboard half pipe makes sense — but a lot of the events are more Euro-centric.

LIVIGNO, Italy — Justin Reiter is a rarity in snowboarding. He is an American who made his career carving curves into the snow banks at high speeds, instead of launching his board airborne from the halfpipe.