Team USA at Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games: Medals and Results

The wait for gold is over for Team USA at Beijing 2022 thanks to veteran snowboarder Lindsey Jacobellis.

The 36-year-old famously threw away gold in the inaugural snowboard cross event at Turin 2006 when she fell attempting a 'method grab' on the penultimate jump.

But 16 years later, she led from start to finish in the final to clinch a long-awaited Olympic title ahead of France’s Chloe Trespeuch and Meryeta Odine of Canada.

Jacobellis also became the oldest snowboarder to win an Olympic medal as she completed her set of global crowns.

She told Olympics.com, "It was never about redemption. My thought going into this was, 'It’s either going to happen or it’s not' and 'It could be my day, or it could be another one of the ladies’ days.' It just so happened that all the stars lined up for me for it to be my day."

Freestyle skier Colby Stevenson won USA's fifth silver medal in Beijing in the first men's Olympic Big Air competition, finishing just behind Norway's Birk Ruud.

Stevenson almost died in a car crash in 2016 and missed PyeongChang 2018 with a torn shoulder muscle, and his first Olympic medal is reward for years of hard work and resilience.

He told Olympics.com, "If I can survive that, I can survive any kind of crash I'm going to take out here; that's kind of how I think about it. I'm just going to give it my all and keep pushing. This is what I love to do and nothing's going to stop me from doing it.

"Big Air's not typically an event I do well in so my expectations weren't super high for landing on the podium. But I knew I was throwing down some new tricks and I had a good chance at doing well."

Elsewhere, there was more disappointment for Mikaela Shiffrin who made another early exit, this time in the slalom.

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