Olympic freestyle skiing has been an official medal sport at the Winter Olympics since 1992. Learn more about the format, rules and scoring now.

Goepper is from Lawrenceburg, Indiana, and is competing in Freestyle Skiing. He's a three-time Olympic medalist in slopestyle, winning a gold medal at Sochi 2014 and silver medals at PyeongChang 2018 and Beijing 2022.

Every winter Olympics sport involves people sliding on ice or snow, and a majority of those sports involve skis. The 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics will be the first to have seven different skiing disciplines with the addition of ski mountaineering to the program.

The 2026 Winter Olympics will take place in Milano Cortina, Italy, from February 6-22. The world’s top athletes will soon compete for gold in dozens of events at the 2026 Winter Olympics in the Milano Cortina regions of Italy. As Team USA sets up its full roster, several Ohioans will be among the nation's top talent.

After three Olympic slopestyle medals, the American freestyle skier thought he was done, before a switch to halfpipe revitalized him.

A total of eight Ohio natives will compete in the upcoming 2026 Milano-Cortina Winter Olympics, which begin Feb. 5 in Italy. Five men and three women originally from Cleveland to Cincinnati and beyond will represent Ohio as part of Team USA in ice hockey,

Kauf is joined on the team by Tess Johnson, Olivia Giaccio and 20-year-old Olympic debutant Liz Lemley. The quartet recently swept the top four spots at a dual moguls World Cup event.

You might be inclined to think of freestyle skiing as one of the new kids on the block at the Winter Olympics — after all, there are lot of young athletes doing it — but some of these flips and spins have been around since they were introduced as demonstration sports at the Calgary Games some 38 years ago.