Jamie Anderson, the icon of slopestyle snowboarding, had no inspiration to return to competition after having her first daughter, Misty, in March 2023.

But after having her second daughter, Nova, this past April, Anderson felt the itch again.

So you find her now in New Zealand, training on snow for the first time since becoming a mom of two, in order to see if she can make it to the 2026 Milan Cortina Games.

“We, collectively as a family, felt if not now, when?” she said. “And I’m not getting any younger. I still feel healthy and strong, and I have a good chance of making the Olympic team, and also doing very well.”

Anderson, a 34-year-old native of South Lake Tahoe, took gold in the first two Olympics to include slopestyle in 2014 and 2018, plus earned silver in the debut of big air i

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