At the Nagano games in 1998, only 24 medals in skiing and snowboarding existed.
At Pyeongchang, there are 60 total medals in these disciplines.
The addition of slopestyle skiing at the 2014 games was lobbied for back in 2010.
The IOC added 8 total freestyle skiing and snowboard events.
Adding big air for Pyeongchang has continued that innovation," Kit McConnell, IOC sports director stated.
Unfortunately for skiing as a whole, we got the snub for big air.
Perhaps it will be added in 2022 if it goes well this year.
Quite different from where they stand today in the eyes of Olympic fans and athletes.
At the time the US were a near dominant force in both sports.
So it proved, with the US taking 3 of 4 golds and a total of 6 medals.
In slopestyle US athletes struggled to achieve the required podiums for automatic qualification.
Indeed, most of the favorites this year are of Swiss or Scandinavian descent.
