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In her fifth Olympics, Jacobellis finally became the Olympic champion in snowboard cross at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. This was the first gold medal for the US in Beijing, ending a five-day gold medal drought. Various media outlets lauded her perseverance in winning after a sixteen-year chase for Olympic gold.
Lindsey Jacobellis and Nick Baumgartner of Team United States (R) celebrate winning the gold medal during the snowboard mixed team cross big final at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics.
Lindsey Jacobellis of the United States became the Olympic champion. Jacobellis dominated the snowboard cross for almost two decades, winning the X Games ten times and the world championships six times, but her only Olympic medal so far was the silver in 2006, when she started celebrating her win too early and was overtaken at the finish line. [2]
After years of Olympic heartbreak, Lindsey Jacobellis gets redemption in Beijing with a gold.
The mixed team snowboard cross competition in snowboarding at the 2022 Winter Olympics was held on 12 February, at the Genting Snow Park in Zhangjiakou. [1] This was the first time a mixed snowboarding event would be featured at the Olympics. Nick Baumgartner and Lindsey Jacobellis of the United States won the event.
A full 16 years and a world removed from the day the American snowboardcross racer gave away the gold medal with a showboat move near the finish line, Jacobellis rode hard to the end and won it.
Zoi Sadowski-Synnott is also the 2022 X Games winner, ahead of Jamie Anderson and Miyabi Onitsuka. Zoi Sadowski-Synnott won the gold medal, becoming the first person from New Zealand to win a Winter Olympic gold medal. [2] Julia Marino of the United States and Tess Coady of Australian won silver and bronze, respectively. For Marino and Coady ...
Nick Baumgartner, the oldest snowboarder in U.S. Olympic history at 40, wins his first Olympic medal, winning gold with Lindsey Jacobellis.