With the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics just a few months away, athletes are under pressure and have little opportunity to make crucial decisions regarding their participation. It is now crunch ...

Nico Porteous of Team New Zealand performs a trick on a practice run ahead of the Men's Freestyle Skiing Halfpipe Final on ...

Nico Porteous, one of two New Zealand athletes to win a Winter Olympic gold medal, will not defend his ski halfpipe title from 2022 at the 2026 Milan Cortina Games as he focuses on other parts of his ...

New Zealand freestyle skier Nico Porteous first made a name for himself after winning Olympic bronze in 2018 at the green age of 16. Since then, the young Kiwi has chalked up more accolades on ...

New Zealand first appeared at the Winter Olympics in 1952 in Oslo, Norway. It took the Kiwis 40 years to reach the podium, when Annelise Coberger earned silver in the slalom in 1992 at Albertville to ...

It’s difficult to describe what it’s like in a superpipe–the biggest class of halfpipe, used in professional competition–without actually standing in one. The feeling is unnerving. The pipe’s walls, ...

Last year, Nico Porteous won X Games Aspen gold with his back-to-back 1620s in the halfpipe, something no one had ever done before. But on Sunday night in his title defense in the Buttermilk Ski Area ...

ZHANGJIAKOU, China (AP) — The gold medalist, Nico Porteous, had blood caked to his ear. The silver medalist, David Wise, was tired — as much from skiing as from running halfway up the Olympic halfpipe ...

ASPEN — Nico Porteous had one major advantage on his competition Friday night in the men’s ski superpipe final at X Games Aspen. You see, the 19-year-old from New Zealand spent most of the past year ...