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ZHANGJIAKOU, China :The United States won gold in the inaugural snowboard cross mixed team event at the Beijing Games on Saturday, with Lindsey Jacobellis beating Italian Michela Moioli in a nail-biting final race.
By Winni Zhou and Mari Saito
Lindsey Jacobellis won her second gold medal of the 2022 Winter Olympics as she and United States team-mate Nick Baumgartner — with a combined age of 76 — won the inaugural snowboard cross mixed team title.
The United States team of Nick Baumgartner (40) and Lindsey Jacobellis (36) were fastest and best in the chaotic debut of mixed team snowboard cross finals here at the Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022. Despite heavy snow falling from the quarter-final stage on, the oldest team in the field kept their cool to take the historic gold.
Canada's snowboard cross tandem of Éliot Grondin and Meryeta O'Dine added to Canada's medal haul with a bronze medal in the mixed snowboard cross event on Saturday in Zhangjiakou, China.
Eight sets of medals have been decided in the snowboarding at Beijing 2022, but there are three more yet to be decided.
BEIJING: US ski star Mikaela Shiffrin’s Beijing Olympics threatened to turn into a winter nightmare but there was long-awaited redemption for snowboarder Lindsey Jacobellis as she won Team USA’s first gold of the Games on Wednesday.
The Winter Olympics are underway! Germany top the medal table after the first five days of action. Day 5 brought more excitement as Petra Vlhova went on to win her first Olympic gold medal on the slopes, while Lindsey Jacobellis exorcised demons of missing out on gold at Turin 2006 to take a sensational victory in the snowboard cross at Charlotte Bankes' expense. Ad/> On Day 6, Yuzuru Hanyu needs a borderline miracle to three-peat at the Olympics with Nathan Chen in pole position in the free skating event — that event begins at 01:30 GMT.