Olympic Snowboarding Slopestyle Women's Final Postponed at Amid Heavy Snow, Latest Weather Forecast

The women's snowboarding slopestyle final, originally scheduled for Tuesday at the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics, was postponed due to a snowstorm in Livigno, Italy.

According to the Associated Press (h/t ESPN), a new date and time for the event has yet to be announced. It was initially slated to take place Tuesday at 1 p.m. local time or 7 a.m. ET.

Per Weather.com, there was a 93 percent chance of snow in Livigno during the daytime on Tuesday, but it drops to a 5 percent chance of rain-snow mix during the daytime on Wednesday.

As of midday Tuesday in Livigno, more than four inches (10 centimeters) of snow had fallen, according to the AP.

The Associated Press also reported that qualifying for women's snowboarding slopestyle was moved up one day from Monday to Sunday in anticipation of poor weather.

The snowstorm has impacted other events as well, including the delay of men's and women's freestyle skiing aerials qualifying on Tuesday.

Additionally, the women's freestyle skiing big air finals were delayed by over an hour on Monday because of snow and wind, while the men's super team ski jumping final was cancelled with a round to go, with medals awarded based on the first two rounds of the competition.

On Sunday, New Zealand's Zoi Sadowski-Synnott was the top qualifier in women's snowboarding slopestyle with a score of 88.08.

She was followed by Japan's Kokomo Murase and South Korea's Seungeun Yu, making them the top contenders to reach the podium.

Americans Lily Dhawornvej and Jessica Perlmutter were the 10th and 11th qualifiers out of the 12 snowboarders who reached the final.

Sadowski-Synnott, 24, won gold in women's slopestyle snowboarding four years ago at the Beijing Olympics, and she is the clear favorite to repeat as Olympic champion in the discipline.

Jamie Anderson of Team USA won gold the first two times women's slopestyle snowboarding was contested at the Olympics in 2014 and 2018, while American Julia Marino won silver in 2022.

If the United States is going to return to the podium in women's snowboarding slopestyle, it will take an unexpected performance in the final by Dhawornvej or Perlmutter, both of whom are just 16 years of age.