3 Park City Olympians soar into the next rounds of Beijing’s Big Air

California’s Mammoth Mountain Ski & Snowboard Team was recognized as the overall Club of the Year, an honor it also won in 2019. Photo: @usfreeskiteam

BEIJING — Park City skiers Colby Stevenson, Darien Stevens, and Alex Hall all placed high enough yesterday to move through to the finals round in the inaugural Freeski Big Air event in the Beijing 2022 Olympic Games. 

The three Parkites have placed the highest of all the U.S. Ski and Snowboard competitors. Big air athletes make one jump per round incorporating spins, grabs, and tricks.

All three graduated high school from Winter Sports School in Park City, Stevenson and Stevens then from Westminster College in Salt Lake City while Hall went to the University of Utah.

Stevenson, a Youth Sports Alliance athlete has recovered from a relatively recent car accident in which he sustained 30 fractures in his skull.