Kokomo Murase completed a golden snowboard Big Air Olympic double for Japan on Monday, after Kira Kimura had won the men's competition on the weekend. X Games champion Murase clinched the gold four years after bronze on her final jump with 179.

Beijing 2022 women’s snowboard big air bronze medalist Kokomo Murase claimed her first Olympic gold medal in a big air battle that came down to the very last run.

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 victory was one for the sport as much as it was for Murase. The night amounted to a blender of triple corks — a trick requiring three off-axis flips that, not too long ago, was a white whale among even the world’s best riders — that rearranged expectations for what championship snowboarding will look like moving forward.

Ollie Martin, the 17-year-old Coloradoan, competed in the snowboard big air final with a broken arm. Here's how he did. (AP photo)

Who says you can't win Olympic gold at 40? Austrian Benjamin Karl's victory in the men's Alpine snowboarding parallel giant slalom (PGS) made him the oldest individual champion in the history of the Winter Games.

With the Olympic snowboard parallel giant slalom competitions approaching on Sunday, riders are wondering whether they will be racing in the discipline's last appearance at a Winter Games as a review by the International Olympic Committee looms.

LIVIGNO, Italy (AP) — That ever-growing bench of Japanese snowboarders runs deep. Jumps very high, too. The country that has steadily been asserting mastery over the halfpipe took that show to the Winter Olympics big air contest Saturday night,

The first snowboarding event of the 2026 Winter Olympics is in the books. Japan’s Kira Kimura, making his Olympic debut, took gold in men’s big air on Saturday.

Austrian snowboarder Benjamin Karl knew exactly what he would do if he won a gold medal at this year’s Winter Olympics; what he hadn’t planned for was the reaction from the rest of the world.