Lindsey Jacobellis captured the United States’ first gold medal of the Beijing Olympics after winning the snowboardcross on Wednesday.
Snowboarder Lindsey Jacobellis became the first American gold medalist at the 2022 Beijing Olympics, jumping to an early lead and holding on to win the women’s snowboardcross Wednesday. Sixteen years after falling in the homestretch of the inaugural Olympic snowboardcross race at the 2006 Games in Torino, Jacobellis,36, became the oldest snowboarder to medal at the Olympics and earned her second medal in five Games. She also became the oldest American woman to win gold at the Winter Games in any sport, a record previously held by Kikkan Randall, who won gold in cross country skiing in Pyeongchang at age 35.
