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The women's snowboarding slopestyle final at the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics is Tuesday, Feb. 17, and there will be one notable name missing from Team USA.
Jamie Anderson, three-time Olympian and two-time gold medalist, had been attempting a comeback after giving birth to two children in the years since her brief retirement after the 2022 Winter Games in Beijing, where she finished ninth. That attempt fell just short when she was left off the U.S. ski and snowboard 97-person roster in late January.
On Jan. 10, Anderson took a scary fall on the first rail of the Aspen Grand Prix finals and exited the event without taking her second run. The 35-year-old's comeback attempt, announced last fall, suffered various setbacks including a broken wrist during her first training camp in New Zealand and a lost bag, mastitis and a clogged duct in Aspen.
Though without Anderson, there will be two snowboarders representing Team USA in the women's slopestyle final: Lily Dhawornvej and Jessica Perlmutter are both expected to be in contention for a medal on Tuesday.
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Is Jamie Anderson at 2026 Winter Olympics? What to know
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Jamie Anderson, three-time Olympian and two-time gold medalist, had been attempting a comeback after giving birth to two children in the years since her brief retirement after the 2022 Winter Games in Beijing, where she finished ninth. That attempt fell just short when she was left off the U.S. ski and snowboard 97-person roster in late January.
On Jan. 10, Anderson took a scary fall on the first rail of the Aspen Grand Prix finals and exited the event without taking her second run. The 35-year-old's comeback attempt, announced last fall, suffered various setbacks including a broken wrist during her first training camp in New Zealand and a lost bag, mastitis and a clogged duct in Aspen.
Though without Anderson, there will be two snowboarders representing Team USA in the women's slopestyle final: Lily Dhawornvej and Jessica Perlmutter are both expected to be in contention for a medal on Tuesday.
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Is Jamie Anderson at 2026 Winter Olympics? What to know
Continue reading...
