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Mikaela Shiffrin 'hasn't decided' on competing in downhill event despite 'very fast' practice run at 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”.
No medal for Charlotte Bankes after fifth place in mixed team snowboard cross
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.
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By Winni Zhou and Mari Saito
Lindsey Jacobellis pulls off board grab to win second Olympic gold, 16 years after showboat fail at Turin 2006
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.
Australian snowboard cross team faces up to disappointing Beijing Winter Olympics after both teams crash in team event
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.
Winter Olympics 2022 - Lindsey Jacobellis wins second gold in mixed team snowboard cross with Nick Baumgartner
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.