Three days after Lindsey Jacobellis became the oldest U.S. Olympian at age 36 to win a gold medal—in snowboard cross—she won her second in the new mixed snowboard cross team event. The Feb. 12 victory moved her to the second-oldest American gold medal winner as her teammate is 40-year-old Nick Baumgartner. Jacobellis is from Roxbury,…
Oldest American Olympians Jacobellis, Baumgartner Win Olympic Gold in Team Snowboard Cross
Longtime US Teammates Win Mixed Snowboardcross at Olympics
ZHANGJIAKOU, China—The running joke was American snowboardcross racer Nick Baumgartner always referring to them as a pair of 40-somethings. “I’m 36,” Lindsey Jacobellis playfully corrected time after time in interview after interview. For these two, and all their vast experience, age proved to be one thing—golden. Jacobellis won her second title of the Beijing Olympics,…
US First Olympic Gold by Lindsey Jacobellis
In her fifth Olympic competition, Lindsey Jacobellis won her first gold medal in the Women’s Snowboard Cross for the United States at the Beijing Winter Olympics on Wednesday at Genting Snow Park; a reprieve after losing a last-second lead at Turin in 2006. Sixteen years ago, Jacobellis slipped as she prematurely celebrated while grabbing her board, losing her lead…
US Wins First Olympic Gold in Beijing Winter Olympics
In her fifth Olympic competition, Lindsey Jacobellis won her first gold medal in the Women’s Snowboard Cross for the United States at the Beijing Winter Olympics on Wednesday at Genting Snow Park; a reprieve after losing a last-second lead at Turin in 2006. Sixteen years ago, Jacobellis slipped as she prematurely celebrated while grabbing her board, losing her lead…
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