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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 cross can be a brutal sport.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Team GB gold medal favourite Charlotte Bankes says she was in a state of “disbelief” after missing out on racing for the podium in snowboard cross. The world champion could only place third in the quarter-final after making a mistake on one of the banks which allowed a rival to undertake her and then losing out on second in the final jump. Ad/> The USA’s Lindsey Jacobellis exorcised demons of missing out on gold at Turin 2006 to take a sensational victory, making her America's oldest Winter Olympic champion at 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.