Kokomo Murase Wins Gold Medal for Snowboarding Big Air
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The first snowboarding gold medal has been handed out at the Milan Cortina 2026 Games, after Japan's Kira Kimura took gold in men's big air on Saturday. Now, it's the women's turn.
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.
Ready to catch big air? Look no further than snowboarding, one of 16 sports to be contested at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy.
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,
See live streaming link below Snowboarding is about to go big in Italy. Literally. The popular winter sport will kick off its Olympic competition Thursday with men’s big air qualifications. Big air is the third of the “park” events and consists of athletes performing one single “big” jump.
Here's what to know about the snowboarding schedule at the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics, including dates, times and TV channel information.
In the early 1970s, Dimitrije Milovich and Wayne Stoveken began building boards meant specifically to surf the snow, testing ideas in Utah’s deep powder. This became Winterstick, one of the earliest companies to treat the snowboard as serious winter sport gear with a purpose-built design.
The United States has dominated the snowboarding events at the Winter Olympics since the sport was introduced at the Games in 1998.
Big air snowboarding and big air freestyle skiing are fairly new to the Olympics. Here's what to know ahead of their events. (AP photo)
The Milan Cortina Winter Olympics officially started on Friday, with the opening ceremony and the lighting of the cauldrons. And these Games are particularly supersized. These are the first Olympics to fully embrace cost-cutting reforms installed by the International Olympic Committee,