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Milan-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics - Freestyle Skiing

The Winter Olympics are here, and that means Freestyle Skiing is back on our screens!


You can view the schedule here. Freestyle Skiing is on from 7-21 Feb 2026.

What is Freestyle Skating?
Freestyle Skiing is a dynamic, acrobatic winter sport and an alternative to traditional skiing. Its characterized by aerial flips, spins and tricks.

There are five disciplines as part of the Winter Olympics:

Moguls is a freestyle skiing competition on a steep and heavily moguled course, stressing technical turns, aerial maneuvers and speed. The scores depend on the turns, jumps/airs and speed.

For the first time in Winter Olympic history, athletes will compete in dual moguls which sees skiers compete against each other on adjacent courses in a knock-out competition. Freestyle dual moguls are scored on a 100-point system, with 60% based on technical turn quality, 20% on aerial maneuvers (air), and 20% on speed.

In halfpipe competitors perform a series of tricks while going down the pipe. On a single best run out of two or three attempts, the amplitude (height), difficulty of tricks, execution (form and landings), variety of maneuvers and progression (new and innovative tricks) are rated. The highest and lowest score are dropped and the average one remains.

Slopestyle consists of complex, creative tricks, jumps and rails while navigating a descending course filled with terrain park features. The athletes are scored on amplitude, difficulty and execution and using twin-tip skis to perform tricks in both forward and backward (switch) positions.

In Big air the athletes launch off a massive jump in order to perform complex tricks - spins, flips and grabs - before landing on a steep slope. Maximum height (amplitude), technical difficulty and clean execution are the key aspects for the score.

Very brief history of Freestyle Skiing
The origin of this sport dated back on the 1960s/70s US as "hot-dogging", merging alpine, acrobatic and mogul techniques. It was recognized by the International Ski Federation (FIS) in 1979 and moved from a rebellious entertainment to regulated Olympic sport. It debuted as demonstration event at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary. Mogul skiing was added as an official medal event at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer and in 2011 the International Olympic Committee (IOC) approved both halfpipe and slopetyle freeskiing event to be added to the WInter Olympics in 2014 in Sochi.
The thread is finally created for the Olympic games, add it to your list, @Geo Lover 7! if something is missing, let me know!
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by Kallisto
The thread is finally created for the Olympic games, add it to your list, @Geo Lover 7! if something is missing, let me know!
This needs to be moved to the Milan-Cortina 2026 forum and adding some more detail about the new events, including the addition of Dual Moguls for this Winter Olympics, in recent years would be nice.
Also schedule is spelt wrong.
:ta:
Original post
by Geo Lover 7
This needs to be moved to the Milan-Cortina 2026 forum and adding some more detail about the new events, including the addition of Dual Moguls for this Winter Olympics, in recent years would be nice.
Also schedule is spelt wrong.
:ta:


Will be fixed when I get the time for it. Spelling is done in no time.
@Geo Lover 7

Hey, it looks like that you have forgotten to add this thread in the Olympic sub-forum. I in turn add the other discipline.

EDIT: fixed it! its in the sub-forum now.
It is time to add a medal ranking here, the very first one:

Women's moguls:

:king1:Lemley (USA)
:king2: Kauf (USA)
:king3: Laffont (France)
(edited 3 weeks ago)
Original post
by Kallisto
It is time to add a medal ranking here, the very first one:
Women's moguls:
:king1:Lemley (USA)
:king2: Kauf (USA)
:king3: Laffont (France)
Women's Slopestyle took place on Monday with a 4th place for GB and Men's Slopestyle happened yesterday.
Original post
by Geo Lover 7
Women's Slopestyle took place on Monday with a 4th place for GB and Men's Slopestyle happened yesterday.


True, I will add the medal ranking I have missed.

Women's slopestyle:

:king1: Gremaud (Switzerland)
:king2: Gu (China)
:king3: Oldham (Canada)

It is a real pity that Britain was so close for a medal again. 4th place is so ungrateful.
Next medal ranking is coming!

Men's Mogul:

:king1: Woods-Topalovic (Australia)
:king2: Kingsbury (Canada)
:king3: Horisima (Japan)

An Australian wins the mogul, what a big surprise!
Time for a new medal ranking, here we go!

Women's dual moguls:

:king1: Anthony (Australia)
:king2: Kauf (USA)
:king3: Lemley (USA)

Second victory for Australia in this discipline, impressive!
Some medal rankings are missing, so I add them afterwards.

Men's skicross:

:king1: Deromedis (Italy)
:king2: Tomasoni (Italy)
:king3: Fiva (Switzerland)

Women's skicross:

:king1: Maier (Germany)
:king2: Smith (Switzerland)
:king3: Näslund (Sweden)

Mixed Aerials:

:king1: USA
:king2: China
:king3: Australia

Men's Halfpipe:

:king1: Ferreira (USA)
:king2: Sidaru (Estonia)
:king3: Mackay (Canada)

Men's Big Air:

:king1: Frostad (Norway)
:king2: Forehand (USA)
:king3: Svancer (Austria)

Women's Big Air:

:king1: Oldham (Canada)
:king2: Gu (China)
:king3: Tabenelli (Italy)

Men's Aerials:

:king1: Wang (China)
:king2: Roth (Switzerland)
:king3: Li (China)

Women's Aerials:

:king1: Mengtao (China)
:king2: Scott (Australia)
:king3: Qi (China)

Informations are subject to change!

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