LIVIGNO – Bad weather forced Olympic organizers Milan Cortina to change the schedule again in Livigno.
The men’s freestyle ski aerial qualifiers, originally scheduled for Tuesday and then pushed back to Thursday, as well as the finals will now take place on Friday at Livigno Aerials and Moguls Park. Qualifying is scheduled to start at 10:30 a.m. (all local times) with the final following at 1:30 p.m.
Organizers also postponed the men’s free ski halfpipe qualifying at Livigno Snow Park, which was originally scheduled to start at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, but left the women’s qualifying on schedule in hopes that the weather would clear at the scheduled start time of 7:30 p.m.
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There is no information yet regarding new times for men’s halfpipe qualifying. The original schedule was for the men’s halfpipe final on Friday followed by the women’s final on Saturday.
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Men’s and women’s freestyle ski runs are scheduled for Friday and Saturday at Livigno Snow Park.
Heavy snow and poor visibility disrupted the final week of the Games in Livigno, located in the Italian Alps near the Swiss border. Mother Nature has mostly cooperated before.
It started when the threat of severe weather on Monday prompted organizers to move up snowboard slopestyle qualifying by one day.
The women’s freeski big air final was postponed Monday evening due to a snowstorm but ultimately started 75 minutes late with Canada’s Megan Oldham winning gold.
Bad weather on Tuesday then resulted in the postponement of the women’s slopestyle final and the women’s and men’s freestyle aerial qualifiers.
The women’s aerials qualifiers and finals were ultimately held on Wednesday with the slopestyle finals on Thursday. The men’s side of the aerial competition was postponed to Thursday.
Heavy snow, poor visibility and the fact that air ambulances, which are needed in emergencies, cannot fly in such conditions, were all factors in the flight delays.
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This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 18, 2026
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