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Lindsey Jacobellis (born August 19, 1985) is an American snowboarder from Roxbury, Connecticut. [1] The most decorated female snowboard cross athlete of all time, [ 2 ] she dominated the sport for almost two decades as a five-time World Champion and ten-time X Games champion.
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]
[11] However, later that day, Baumgartner learned that he would be competing with his teammate Lindsey Jacobellis in the inaugural mixed snowboard cross event. After two qualifying rounds, in the final, Baumgartner took the first leg of the race and delivered a slim lead to Jacobellis, who briefly fell back to third before returning to the lead ...
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.
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.
ZHANGJIAKOU, China — Lindsey Jacobellis has spent the past 16 years living with one of the worst mistakes in Olympic history. Wednesday afternoon, at long last, she got redemption in the best ...
Nick Baumgartner and Lindsey Jacobellis of the United States won the event. Jacobellis added a second gold to the one she won two days earlier in the individual snowboard cross (which was also Team USA's first 2022 Olympic gold), while Baumgartner won his first Olympic medal.
Nick Baumgartner, the oldest snowboarder in U.S. Olympic history at 40, wins his first Olympic medal, winning gold with Lindsey Jacobellis.