{"id":10992,"date":"2026-02-17T22:29:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T22:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/10992\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T22:29:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T22:29:17","slug":"snowstorm-disrupts-schedule-of-olympic-snowboarding-and-freeski-events-in-italian-alps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/10992\/","title":{"rendered":"Snowstorm disrupts schedule of Olympic snowboarding and freeski events in Italian Alps"},"content":{"rendered":"

LIVIGNO, Italy (AP) \u2014 The Olympic<\/a> final for women\u2019s snowboarding slopestyle was scrubbed off Tuesday\u2019s schedule and moved back a day due to a heavy snowstorm in Livigno.<\/p>\n

The slopestyle final was rescheduled to Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. local time (1330 GMT, 8:30 a.m. EST).<\/p>\n

The storm delayed New Zealander Zoi Sadowski-Synnott\u2019s<\/a> attempt at a repeat. She qualified first on Sunday \u2014 an opening round that was moved up a day because of the storms rolling in.<\/p>\n

Qualifying for freestyle aerials down the road from the snowpark in Livigno was also delayed. <\/p>\n

The men\u2019s ski big air finals were also scheduled later Tuesday and were set to go ahead after the storm subsided.<\/p>\n

On Monday night, the start of the women\u2019s big air contest was delayed for more than an hour when a windy squall came through the course. Megan Oldham of Canada won and Eileen Gu finished second<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In slopestyle, snowboarders<\/a> perform tricks on rails and jump off ramps. Heavy snow and wind can throw them off course or make the track too slow to ascend the run-ups to the jumps. <\/p>\n

More than 4 inches (10 centimeters) of snow fell by midday Tuesday. The men\u2019s slopestyle final is scheduled for Wednesday, when the forecast looks better.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP Winter Olympics: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/milan-cortina-2026-winter-olympics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LIVIGNO, Italy (AP) \u2014 The Olympic final for women\u2019s snowboarding slopestyle was scrubbed off Tuesday\u2019s schedule and moved…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[937,50,8375,5669,2783,8010,1821,1824,1885,307],"class_list":{"0":"post-10992","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-alps","8":"tag-2026-winter-olympics","9":"tag-alps","10":"tag-blizzards","11":"tag-eileen-gu","12":"tag-general-news","13":"tag-megan-oldham","14":"tag-olympic-games","15":"tag-send-to-apple-news","16":"tag-snowboarding","17":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}