The United States has the most athletes competing in the Winter Olympics, but is not favored to win the gold medal race.

LIVIGNO, Italy (AP) — Canada's three-time Olympic bronze-medal snowboarder Mark McMorris crashed Wednesday night during big air training for the Milan Cortina Games and had to be taken off the course on a stretcher.

Cities currently suitable to host the Winter Games may not be by the 2050s.

The United States has dominated the snowboarding events at the Winter Olympics since the sport was introduced at the Games in 1998.

LIVIGNO, Italy (AP) — A backside double cork 1080! Followed by a cab triple cork 1440! Holy Crail, that was a sweet grab! The snowboarders and freestyle skiers will be speaking a language all their own as they “shred some gnar” (ride some gnarly conditions) at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics.

American Red Gerard is going into his third Olympic Games trying to recapture the way he rode at 17, when he burst into the elite levels of the sport by winning a gold medal in slopestyle.

Three-time Olympic bronze medalist Mark McMorris of Canada will not compete in the men's snowboard big air competition at Milan Cortina 2026.