Canadian snowboarder Elizabeth Hosking on a roll ahead of her 3rd Olympic Games

Canadian halfpipe snowboarder Elizabeth Hosking has lived the highs and lows of her sport.

Hosking was sixth at the Beijing Olympics in 2022, matching Canada's second-best result ever at the games in the event, and won silver at the 2023 FIS World Championships, collecting Canada's first-ever halfpipe world championship medal.

Then a concussion from a fall in training took her away from the sport for an entire season.

Symptoms would come and go, adding to the uncertainty and frustration. She eventually returned to international competition for the 2024-25 season and finished seventh at the 2025 FIS World Championships.

So the 24-year-old from Longueuil, Que., is more than grateful to compete at the Milano-Cortina Games, her third Olympics.

"I definitely think I'm riding a lot for me," Hosking said.

"Just being on my snowboard, feeling free. I just love snowboarding so much," she added. "But then competition, it just brings out another level in me that I can't recreate anywhere else. And I'm just going to embrace that fully at these next Olympics."

Hosking has looked good in World Cup competition in the buildup to the games, finishing 11th on Dec. 12 at Secret Garden, China, winning in Calgary on Jan. 3, and placing seventh on Jan. 9 at Aspen and sixth on Jan. 17 at Laax, Switzerland.

"I feel I'm on a good run right now and I'm in a good place with my snowboarding," said Hosking.

Quebec's Elizabeth Hosking wins snowboard halfpipe in Calgary for 1st-ever World Cup title

The win in Calgary, at the Snow Rodeo FIS Halfpipe World Cup, was Hosking's first World Cup victory and made her the first Canadian woman to earn a halfpipe World Cup title since Maelle Ricker in Valle Nevado in 2002.

Hosking also became the first Canadian