The Women's Olympic Snowboarding Slopestyle Final Has Been Rescheduled

At the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics, Women’s snowboarding slopestyle finals were postponed from the original start time of 7 a.m. Eastern Standard Time on February 17, 2026, due to a snowstorm.

Now, we have a set start time of 8:30 a.m. EST on February 18, 2026, provided everything goes according to schedule.

The United States will have two riders in the final: Lily Dhawornvej and Jess Perlmutter. Both are just 16 years old, and both fell on their first runs of Sunday’s qualification round of slopestyle. They needed to stomp their runs and score above a 68 to make it to the second day. They did just that.

Both the 16-year-olds suddenly and ferociously burst onto the mainstream in the past two years. Dhawornvej punched her ticket to the X Games after the streetstyle qualifier at Copper Mountain in 2024. In front of a home crowd, she put down a 50-50 to tame dog to rail transfer sequence that set the internet absolutely ablaze. Then at the X Games Aspen in January, she took home the bronze medal in Knuckle Huck.

Perlmutter qualified for the 2024 Uninvited Invitational via the wild card entry. She rode her way to third place and took home the Subaru Rookie Award worth $1,500 and a $500 ‘Standout Performance’ award. She went on to win Red Bull Heavy Metal Boston in 2025 as a 15-year-old, and then she won the 2025 Uninvited Invitational. In January, she sloth-rolled and backflipped her way into X Games Knuckle Huck gold.

According to the folks over at Darkside Snowboards in Vermont (Perlmutter’s shop sponsor) the east coaster is expected to return to Boston to try and defend her Red Bull Heavy Metal throne after the Olympics are over.

Meanwhile, one of the universally favored riders to land on the podium will not compete in finals. Great Britain’s Mia Brookes fell attempting a backside 1260 melon on her first run, finishing with just a 38.11. She needed to put down a flawless run 2 in order to make it to finals. Everything was going well, until she but checked on her final hit, a Cab 900. She was docked significantly for that flaw by the judges and finished the day in 16th place.

Reigning gold medalist Zoi Sadowski-Synnott sits atop the leaderboard going into finals, with a four-point lead on Kokomo Murase, who has already claimed one gold medal in Big Air in these Olympic Games.

Here’s the complete start list for the women:

1. Zoi Sadowski-Synnott
2. Kokomo Murase – Japan
3. Seungeun Yu – Korea
4. Reira Iwabuchi – Japan
5. Anna Gasser – Austria
6. Ally Hickman – Australia
7. Mari Fukada – Japan
8. Annika Morgan – Germany
9. Laurie Blouin – Canada
10. Lily Dhawornvej – USA
11. Jess Perlmutter – USA
12. Juliette Pelchat – Canada