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The United States team of Nick Baumgartner (40) and Lindsey Jacobellis (36) were fastest and best in the brilliantly chaotic debut of mixed team snowboard cross here at the Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022.
Sixteen years on from a showboat that would seemingly haunt her for the rest of her career, Lindsey Jacobellis pulled off the ultimate flex in what could well have been her final jump at an Olympics. Jacobellis’ name became synonymous with celebrating too early when she attempted a board grab in the dying moments of the women's snowboard cross big final at Turin 2006, a move which famously cost her gold as she fell in the final straight to gift Switzerland’s Tanja Frieden victory.
Lindsey Jacobellis clinched a second gold of Beijing 2022 after winning the inaugural mixed team snowboard cross with American team-mate Nick Baumgartner. Just three days after winning gold in the women’s cross, 16 years after her Turin heartbreak, Jacobellis was celebrating another victory at the Genting Snow Park in Zhangjiakou.
Charlotte Bankes displayed her champion quality in the mixed team snowboard cross event but was unable to help Team GB reach the big final at the Genting Snow Park in Zhangjiakou. Teaming up with Huw Nightingale, Bankes was aiming to bounce back from the disappointment of exiting at the quarter-final stage of the women’s event earlier in the Winter Olympics.
BEIJING (AP) — The Latest on the Beijing Winter Olympics:
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.
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.