LIVIGNO, Italy (AP) — A backside double cork 1080! Followed by a cab triple cork 1440! Holy Crail, that was a sweet grab! The snowboarders and freestyle skiers will be speaking a language all their own as they “shred some gnar” (ride some gnarly conditions) at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics.

Japan's Ayumu Hirano clinches snowboard halfpipe gold with the last run of the final at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.

Snowboarding once again will have compelling storylines going into the Milan Cortina Olympics as all the athletes will compete at the Livigno Snow Park in Valtellina, which is right on the Swiss