Featured Picture: Coby Grant-Krenz | Skier: Alex Ferreira
It’s by no means too early to start out excited about subsequent winter, at the very least that’s our rule of thumb at FREESKIER. That rule is very true when the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy are proper across the nook! On that word, the U.S. home FIS World Cup schedule has been launched, with the entire stops listed under serving as key Olympic qualifiers for these athletes.
For the U.S. Freeski crew, which incorporates massive air, halfpipe and slopestyle disciplines, Alex Corridor and Alex Ferreira are the one two confirmed athletes to qualify for 2026 Olympic crew. Nevertheless, the listing of nominated athletes (primarily based on worldwide rankings) is stacked with notable names and is an efficient indicator for who we would see waving the pink, white and blue on the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Video games this coming February.
“This can be a milestone yr for our group, with each the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Video games on the horizon and a full slate of home World Cups,” mentioned Sophie Goldschmidt, President & CEO of U.S. Ski & Snowboard. “Increasing the variety of World Cups on house soil is central to our mission of supporting athletes and rising the profile of winter sports activities in the USA. Internet hosting 10 occasions throughout all main disciplines displays that dedication.”
In the event you’ve by no means been to an FIS World Cup occasion, it’s an unbeatable expertise. The size of a 22-foot halfpipe or a 75-foot massive air bounce is just daunting, and it instills a recent perspective of appreciation for these skiers and their craft. To see this stage of expertise up shut is indescribable, and with spots within the Olympics at stake, the 2025/26 season is sure to be distinctive!
Beneath we’ve outlined the 2025/26 FIS World Cup U.S. home calendar, together with freeskiing (massive air, slopestyle and halfpipe), freestyle (moguls and aerials) and alpine (downhill, super-G, large slalom and slalom).
December 13, 2025 – Large Air
Steamboat, CO – Visa Large Air offered by Toyota
December 19-20, 2025 Halfpipe
Copper Mountain, CO – Toyota U.S. Grand Prix
January 9-10, 2026 – Slopestyle & Halfpipe
Aspen, CO – Toyota U.S. Grand Prix
January 11-12, 2026 – Aerials, Aerials crew
Lake Placid, NY – Freestyle Ski World Cup
January 16-18, 2026 – Moguls, Twin Moguls, Aerials
Deer Valley, UT – Intermountain Well being Freestyle Worldwide offered by Stifel
November 27-28, 2025 – Males’s Tremendous-G, Big Slalom
Copper Mountain, CO – Stifel Copper Cup offered by United Airways
November 29-30, 2025 – Ladies’s Big Slalom, Slalom
Copper Mountain, CO – Stifel Copper Cup offered by United Airways
December 4-7, 2025 – Males’s Downhill, Downhill, Tremendous-G, Big Slalom
Beaver Creek, CO – Stifel Birds of Prey
