{"id":479400,"date":"2026-02-16T23:35:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T23:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/479400\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T23:35:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T23:35:14","slug":"megan-oldham-wins-gold-in-womens-ski-big-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/479400\/","title":{"rendered":"Megan Oldham wins gold in women’s ski big air"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFebruary 16, 2026\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Sharing<\/p>\n

Megan Oldham<\/a> has won her second medal of Milano Cortina 2026<\/a>, taking gold in women\u2019s ski big air on Monday. <\/p>\n

In the final, every skier did three runs, with their best two scores counting towards the final results. Oldham came in as the top-ranked competitor from the qualification round. The start of the final was delayed for more than an hour by unexpected snow and high winds. <\/p>\n

For her first trick, Oldham did a backwards entry for a switch double cork 1260 with safety grab. With a solid landing, she earned 91.75 points from the judges, putting her into second place after the first run. <\/p>\n

In her second run, Oldham went for a double cork 1260 with mute grab. Another clean landing got her 89.00 points, for a running total of 180.75 which pushed her into the lead. <\/p>\n

In the third run, no else could touch that total, so when Oldham took her last run down, it was truly a victory lap. <\/p>\n

This is Canada\u2019s first Olympic medal in ski big air, which was only added to the Olympic program four years ago at Beijing 2022<\/a>. <\/p>\n

More to come. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"February 16, 2026 Megan Oldham has won her second medal of Milano Cortina 2026, taking gold in women\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[186707,187794,43,188390,188236,14471,188391,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-479400","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-big-air","9":"tag-freestyle-skiing","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-megan-oldham","12":"tag-milan-medal","13":"tag-milano-cortina-2026","14":"tag-naomi-urness","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-top-news","17":"tag-top-stories","18":"tag-topnews","19":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}