EditorialAyumu Hirano of Japan, performs a frontside double cork 1260, shown in this composite image, during the men's snowboard halfpipe final at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics in Zhangjiakou, China, on Friday, Feb. 11, 2022. (Photographs by Bedel Saget; composite image by Jon Huang)
EditorialA composite image shows the snowboarder André H?flich near Saas-Fee, Switzerland, in October 2021, working on a “cab double cork 1260” — taking off backward (his usual lead foot in back), rotating three and a half times with two flips, and landing backward. (Noah Throop/The New York Times)