Snowboarding-Second gold for Jacobellis as US veterans win cross mixed team event

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.

Canada, whose female rider had crashed in the final race, caught up to win bronze.

The American team, made up of Jacobellis and 40-year old Nick Baumgartner, were the oldest to compete at Saturday's mixed team event.

Jacobellis, 36, came out of the gate first in the final but was overtaken by Pyeongchang gold medallist Moioli.

The American kept hot on Moioli's heels and started to reel her in while the other two boarders fell behind and in the neck-and-neck final stretch Jacobellis came out in front to beat the Italian by 0.2 seconds.

"Don't count the old people out ever!" an elated Baumgartner told reporters after the final.

"For any athlete, getting pushed out by the younger generation is a feeling that really sucks, so for us to go out there and put our stamp of approval on it, (to show) that we're not done yet, we just gotta work a little harder and we're willing to put that work in, so it's a good feeling."

Jacobellis won the United States' first gold of the Games on Wednesday when she took the women's snowboard cross title - a victory that went some way to making up for a career-defining fall at the 2006 Turin Games.

"We've definitely been through a lot and we've seen each other's ups and downs and struggles, so to be able to come together and work as a team and learn from each other ... I thought we did great today," she said.

Canadian Eliot Grondin, who was part of the team who took bronze, said it was impressive to see the American pair dominate the race.

"I've watched these people race since I was