Yiming Su\u00a0and deep Japanese and U.S. teams drive Laax men\u2019s slopestyle storylines<\/p>\n
The men\u2019s field of 60 riders will compete across three days, beginning with Friday\u2019s qualifications. The top 24 will advance to Saturday\u2019s semi-finals, with 12 riders moving on to Sunday\u2019s finals to close out the competition.<\/p>\n
Defending Laax champion Cameron Spalding of Canada will not compete this weekend, neither will three-time Olympic bronze medallist Mark McMorris<\/a>, who both continue training at home.<\/p>\n The People\u2019s Republic of China\u2019s Yiming Su<\/a>, who has already clinched this season\u2019s big air Crystal Globe, will be among the favourites as he looks to claim the top spot on the podium. Yuming has recently revealed technical\u00a0new tricks on his social media that he could look to land in competition at\u00a0Laax.\u00a0<\/p>\n Team USA\u2019s already Olympic-qualified athletes* Red Gerard<\/a> and Jake Canter<\/a> will also sit out Laax to train at home. However, seven U.S. men will be in the field, including Justus Henkes,<\/a> 17-year-old Oliver Martin, Brock Crouch, and 2022 Laax champion Sean Fitzsimons<\/a>, all looking to meet qualifying criteria for the final two U.S. team berths.<\/p>\n The Japanese team also remains highly competitive, with past and present big air world champions Hasegawa Taiga<\/a> and\u00a0Kimata Ryoma<\/a> aiming to rise above a field of six Japanese teammates and secure a top three finish in Laax.<\/p>\n Milano Cortina 2026 will be the fourth Olympic Games to feature slopestyle snowboarding, which will be contested at Livigno Snow Park, beginning with men\u2019s big air from 5\u20137 February, followed by women\u2019s big air on 8\u20139 February. Men\u2019s and women\u2019s slopestyle competition will then take place from 16\u201318 February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yiming Su\u00a0and deep Japanese and U.S. teams drive Laax men\u2019s slopestyle storylines The men\u2019s field of 60 riders…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-240029","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}