Olympics 2018 live stream: Time, TV schedule, and how to watch women’s snowboard big air qualifying online

For the first time ever, women will have the chance to test their skills in snowboarding’s most exciting event at the Winter Olympics. The big air event will unleash the craziest jumps the games have ever seen, and one woman’s march toward history begins with the qualifying round Sunday night.

The 2018 Games mark the Olympic premiere of the big air event for both men and women, though the discipline had been largely limited to the male side until only recently. The event, as its name implies, packs together massive ramps and challenges snowboarders to unleash their biggest tricks as they hurtle through the air. Though the men’s event has been an FIS world championship staple since 2003, women didn’t have their own event until 2015. On Sunday, these elite athletes can prove they’re equal regardless of gender with some explosive runs in Pyeongchang.

Wind has wreaked havoc on the 2018 Winter Olympics’ skiing and snowboarding events, forcing postponements and nearly ruining the women’s slopestyle snowboarding finals. On Sunday, unseasonable winds could make one of the sport’s most electrifying disciplines even more dangerous.

The women’s big air event will kick off Sunday evening with a qualifying round that will determine Thursday’s final. Fortunately for Sunday’s competitors, the winds that affected Phoenix Snow Park haven’t been nearly as brutal at the Alpensia Ski Jumping Centre, where massive jumps will push the world’s best boarders to their limits in the quest for Olympic gold.

The massive ramps and pressure of the world’s biggest stage should unlock some extra twists and flips at Alpensia. American Jamie Anderson can follow up her gold medal performance in the slopestyle competition with another trip to the podium. Her teammate, Julia Marino, will compete knowing Sunday’s runs are about more than just determining 2018’s best.

“I love how all snowboard events [big air, slopestyle, halfpipe, snowboard cross, slalom] are the same, and on the same courses, for women and for men,” Marino told OZY.com. “I guess big air was the last, so it’s great that it shows that the trend is … picking up momentum for equality and equal representation.”