Overview
- Chloe Kim led women’s halfpipe qualifying with a 90.25 while riding with a brace for a torn labrum, with the final scheduled for Thursday at 1:30 p.m. ET.
- Australia’s Scotty James topped the men’s halfpipe qualifiers with a 94.00 to secure last-drop position for Friday’s final under the lights.
- Defending champion Ayumu Hirano advanced with an 85.50 less than a month after multiple fractures in a World Cup crash, joining fellow Japanese qualifiers Yuto Totsuka (91.25), Ryusei Yamada (90.25) and Ruka Hirano (87.50).
- China’s Jiayu Liu crashed during women’s qualifying and was stretchered off; officials and her team did not provide an immediate update on her condition.
- Kokomo Murase won the women’s big air with 179 points, delivering Japan’s first Olympic gold in women’s snowboarding by finishing 6.75 points ahead of Zoi Sadowski-Synnott.