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Team USA's Lindsey Jacobellis on Wednesday won her country's first gold medal at the Beijing Winter Olympics, finally enjoying redemption 16 years after showboating near the finish cost her the title.
Snowboard cross can be a brutal sport.
Meryeta O'Dine won Canada's seventh medal of the 2022 Beijing Olympic Winter Games on Wednesday, picking up a bronze in the women's snowboard cross final at the Genting Snow Park P & X Stadium in Zhangjiakou, China.
ZHANGJIAKOU, Hebei: Lindsey Jacobellis claimed the first gold medal for the United States at the Beijing Olympics when she won the snowboard cross final on Wednesday (Feb 9) and finally found redemption after her career-defining fail at the Turin Games 16 years ago.
Charlotte Bankes missed out on an expected medal in the women’s snowboard-cross as Great Britain’s disappointing start to the Winter Olympics continued in Beijing.
Favourite Charlotte Bankes was eliminated at the quarter-final stage as American veteran Lindsey Jacobellis claimed an extraordinary first Olympic gold medal in women’s snowboard-cross at the age of 36.
“El snowboard es divertido y me estaba divirtiendo". Lindsey Jacobellis ha roto con la historia maldita que le persiguía desde los Juegos de Turín 2006. La norteamericana (36 años) ha logrado el oro en snowboard cross en Pekín… 16 años después de una de las mayores pifias de la historia del deporte (ver vídeo de la pieza). La campeona del mundo en 2005 y multimedallasita en Winter X regaló el título olímpico en la edición italiana tras querer hacer un grapado en el último salto del recorrido cuando tenía una ventaja de tres segundos sobre su máxima adversaria, la suiza Tanja Fraiden.
ZHANGJIAKOU, China :Lindsey Jacobellis won the first gold medal for the United States at the Beijing Olympics when she took snowboard cross gold on Wednesday and finally found redemption after her career-defining fail at the Turin Games 16 years ago.