Hirano is the reigning gold medalist in the event. He also took back-to-back silvers in 2014 and 2018. He can't be completely counted out of the medal race either. He won the first halfpipe event on the FIS World Cup circuit this season.

Chloe Kim could become the first snowboarder to claim three straight gold medals when she competes Friday at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics.

Snowboarding medal events continue at the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics on Friday, Feb. 13, with the women’s cross final and men’s halfpipe final at Livigno Snow Park.

Snoop Dogg is hitting the slopes with the best of the best! The rapper and Team USA honorary coach got a snowboarding lesson from none other than gold medalist and fellow NBC commentator for the 2026

The women's snowboard cross should be one of the more wide-open competitions we see across all of the snowboarding disciplines at the 2026 Winter Olympics.

DNI means: Did Not Improve. It comes into play in any event that has multiple runs without counting all the scores. For example, the Big Air competitions in Olympic skiing and snowboarding include three downhill runs for every competitor. Of those three runs in Big Air, though, only two scores count.

A Buddhist monk has drawn international attention after South Korea won landmark Olympic snowboard medals, capping decades of his support for young athletes in a sport long unpopular at home. Snowboarding has long failed to gain popularity in South Korea,