Lindsey Jacobellis says famous 2006 fall ‘shaped her’ to win historic gold at Beijing Olympics
Lindsey Jacobellis got the United States’ 2022 Winter Olympics campaign on track by capturing her nation’s first gold medal of the tournament.
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Belle Brockhoff suffers Beijing 2022 heartache in snowboard cross final as Lindsey Jacobellis finally finds form 16 years on
Snowboard cross can be a brutal sport.
Snowboarder Jacobellis wins first US gold at the Beijing Games
Jacobellis, who on Wednesday won her country's first gold medal at the Beijing Olympics, never stopped fighting even after being dogged for 16 years by a fumble that came to define her career. In a moment that was instantly televised and endlessly ridiculed, Jacobellis was within meters of winning gold in 2006 - the first time snowboard cross was included in the Games - when she fluffed a trick move and was overtaken at the finish line. The 36-year old, who until Wednesday had failed to reach the podium in the past three Olympics, was adamant that hers was not an easy redemption story but one of perseverance and grit.
Olympic wake-up call: O'Dine makes good on her Olympic 2nd chance
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.
Snowboard silver for France as Jacobellis wins first US gold of the Olympics
Jacobellis was within metres of winning the event in 2006 – the first time it was included in the Games – when she threw in a showboating trick trying to grab her board, only to fall and get overtaken at the line.
Snowboarding: Jacobellis earns first US gold and long-awaited redemption
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.
Winter Olympics 2022 - Japan's Ryota Yamamoto tops Nordic combined leaderboard after ski jumping
Ryota Yamamoto tops the Nordic combined individual normal hill/10km leaderboard after the ski jumping competition. Yamamoto flattened the field with a monster jump of 108m earning him 133 points.
JUEGOS DE INVIERNO Subsana la mayor pifia de los Juegos... 16 años después
“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.