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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 edging past Italian Michela Moioli in a nail-biting final race.
BEIJING (AP) — The Latest on the Beijing Winter Olympics:
Mikaela Shiffrin cut a confident figure during the first of three practice runs for the women’s downhill event, clocking the eighth-fastest time out of 45 skiers, but said she «hasn't decided» whether she will compete on Tuesday. The American’s Olympic campaign got off to a disastrous start in Beijing as she crashed out in her first two events but then managed a ninth-place finish in the super-G, after which she said “things were starting to line up again”.
Charlotte Bankes exited the Beijing Winter Olympics without a medal after finishing fifth in the mixed team snowboard-cross competition with team-mate Huw Nightingale at Genting Snow Park on Saturday.
By Winni Zhou and Mari Saito
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.
Australia's two mixed snowboard cross teams crashed out in the same quarter-final at the Beijing Winter Olympics, with Belle Brockhoff taken to hospital for scans.