White isn't competing because he retired from snowboarding at the end of the last Olympic cycle. He announced during the 2022 Olympics that it would be his last time at that level of competition. And after it was over, he formally retired from all snowboard competition.

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.

These are the criteria judges take into account to score halfpipe, slopestyle and big air snowboarding at the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics.

Competitions at the Winter Olympics are defined by extremes: extreme air, extreme speed and extreme temperatures. On sliding tracks, athletes in luge, bobsleigh and skeleton break highway speed limits.