Dual moguls to debut at the Winter Olympics. Here’s how it will work

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. 

It’s a new event within the freestyle skiing sport at the Winter Games. The Olympics said freestyle skiing combines “speed, technique and spectacular tricks” in 15 events this year. 

The new events, both men’s and women’s dual moguls, revolve around athletes skiing down a slope with large snow mounds making the course bumpy. There are two jumps where athletes can perform tricks. In dual moguls, two competitors race each other at the same time. 

Two athletes compete side-by-side racing down a bumpy ski slope course where skiers have to navigate through snow mounds and sharp, consecutive turns.

There are two opportunities to jump and do aerial tricks.

In this duo’s event, the course is divided into two lanes measuring between 200 and 270 meters.

After competing, the athlete with the highest score advances to the next round and continues through the bracket until the final event.

Athletes are judged by their turns, air and speed. The evaluations come from either seven judges, split 5-2 for technique, or a panel of five judges split 3-2 for technique and jumps, according to the Olympics.

Turns count for 60% of the total score, while air and speed each count for 20%.

In the case the competitors tie in speed, they both get only half the speed votes.