Jacobellis Earns 1st US Gold At Olympics In Snowboardcross

ZHANGJIAKOU, China (AP) — Lindsey Jacobellis captured the United States’ first gold medal of the Beijing Olympics.

The 36-year-old rode hard to the line in her snowboardcross final a full 16 years after a mistake cost her the title.

2006: 🥈
2010: 5th
2014: 7th
2018: 4th
2022: 🥇@LindsJacobellis can finally call herself an Olympic champion. #WinterOlympics pic.twitter.com/XkdxleCJLA

— Team USA (@TeamUSA) February 9, 2022

Jacobellis had been best known for taking a massive lead into the final jump at the 2006 Turin Games but pulling on her board as she rode over the crest and then falling and settling for silver.

This time she rode hard all the way to the line.

Jacobellis was competing in her fifth Olympics and captured the first gold of what has been an otherwise dismal Games for the Americans.