Fast-paced, head-to-head and often unpredictable, dual moguls is a favorite event of skiers — maybe moreso than the the singles races — and it's finally in the Olympics.

Dual moguls is one of several events debuting at the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics. MILAN, Metropolitan City of Milan — Moguls skiing has been an official event in the Olympics since 1992, but dual moguls is making its debut at the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Games on Saturday.

LIVIGNO, Italy (AP) — A big upset in men's moguls at the Milan Cortina Olympics was decided by a razor-thin margin. Hardly a margin at all, really. Unheralded Australian freestyle skier Cooper Woods snatched the gold medal away from the sport's most decorated skier,

Lemley was joined on the podium by teammate Jaelin Kauf, who secured silver in a repeat of her performance at the 2022 Winter Olympic Games, for the first-ever U.S. 1-2 finish in a women's Olympic freestyle skiing event. Kauf nearly didn't make the final after a stumble on her first run during qualifications left her in 24th place.

Cooper Woods and Mikaël Kingsbury both finished with 83.71 points but the gold medal was decided by a tiebreak.

Steamboat athlete Landon Wendler was the model of consistency as he carved his way through the men’s Olympic moguls competition on Wednesday. During the first qualification round, Wendler scored 75.08 points,

Australia's Cooper Woods won the moguls competition to secure the country's first gold medal at the Milano Cortina Games by edging Canada's Mikael Kingsbury on a tiebreak.The 25-year-old Australian claimed victory by the finest of margins with a turns score of 48.

After sitting in second place in the qualifying round, Elizabeth Lemley, 20, put down the gold medal-winning run in her Olympic debut, benefiting from a slip-up from defending champion Jakara Anthony. She tallied a final score of 82.30, sending her big and rowdy cheering section of friends and family from Vail, Colo. into a frenzy.

Australia's Cooper Woods won the gold medal in men's freestyle skiing moguls at the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics on Thursday.

Former GB alpine ski racer Chemmy Alcott talks through what makes moguls skiing such a challenging event to take part in.

Cooper Woods claimed Australia's first medal at the Milan/Cortina Olympics, a gold by stunning the favourites in the freestyle skiing moguls on Thursday. Woods topped the first run which reduced the field from 20 to eight skiers and then repeated the trick as the final man in a dramatic finale.