Day 14 from Milan Cortina will see six more Winter Olympics gold medals awarded. It starts with freeski women’s ski cross and men’s aerials, before the men’s halfpipe competition concludes later. More medals will be handed out in speedskating too,
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New Zealand freestyle skier Ives in hard Olympic crash
New Zealand freestyle skier Finley Melville Ives was stretchered off on Friday after a hard fall during his second qualifying run for the halfpipe event at the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics. It was the second serious crash in two days in freestyle skiing after Canada's Cassie Sharpe also required medical attention following a fall during the women's halfpipe qualifying on Thursday.
Bend native Hunter Hess was scheduled to compete in the men's freeski halfpipe at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan-Cortina on Thursday, Feb. 19. The event was postponed due to heavy snow in the Levigno area.
Birk Ruud of Norway, who won big air gold at the 2022 Beijing Olympics and slopestyle gold earlier at the 2026 Milan Cortina Games, finished in eighth place after spilling out on each of his final runs.
The men's aerials qualifiers and final were rescheduled for Friday starting from 4:30 p.m. ET, while the men's halfpipe qualification runs were moved to an hour after that.
The 2026 Winter Olympics continue on Friday, with a busy day of action on the ice and the slopes. There will be several medal events as the Milan Cortina Games wind down. One of the highlights of the day
Freestyle Skiing has been part of the Winter Games’ program since 1988. The exciting sight of athletes soaring through the sky has been an exciting sight for fans. Aerials was a demonstration sport in both 1988 and 1992, but was officially entered into the program as a medal event in Lillehammer, Norway in 1994.
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