Lindsey Jacobellis, Nick Baumgartner grab gold; Erin Jackson, bobsled begins on Sunday

Lindsey Jacobellis, Nick Baumgartner make history with winning mixed snowboardcross gold. Elana Meyers Taylor, Kaillie Humphries make monobob debut on Sunday.

Lindsey Jacobellis, Nick Baumgartner make history with winning mixed snowboardcross gold. Elana Meyers Taylor, Kaillie Humphries make monobob debut on Sunday.

Snowboardcross gold medalists talk about US coach Peter Foley who is under investigation

Following their win, Lindsey Jacobellis and Nick Baumgartner share their experiences with coach Peter Foley. Foley is under investigation for allegations of inappropriate behavior.

Following their win, Lindsey Jacobellis and Nick Baumgartner share their experiences with coach Peter Foley. Foley is under investigation for allegations of inappropriate behavior.

Lindsey Jacobellis, Nick Baumgartner win mixed snowboard Olympic gold in epic finish

Snowboard cross is just the best!!!

Lindsey Jacobellis and Nick Baumgartner are Olympic mixed snowboard cross gold medalists after an absolutely epic finish.

On Saturday in Beijing, the final of the mixed team snowboard cross event got underway. Mixed snowboard cross is a new event at these Winter Olympics, featuring pairings of one man and one woman snowboarder in a relay race of sorts. The men start off the relay by racing down the course, then the women finish it with staggered start times for how their partners ended.

Just a few days after Jacobellis nabbed her long-awaited gold in women’s snowboard cross, the 36-year-old teamed up with 40-year-old Baumgartner for the mixed event as the oldest pair in the competition. Baumgartner went first, putting down an excellent run that set Jacobellis up with a 0.04 second lead.

Then Jacobellis did what she does best and finished off the relay with a stunning gold-medal winning run.

Baumgartner’s reaction to Jacobellis’s run is also absolutely heartwarming as he cheers her on from the bottom of the hill.

Jacobellis and Baumgartner now have the first gold medal in Olympic mixed team snowboard cross history after that incredible relay. Fans could not have been happier for both snowboarders after the final race too!

Lindsey Jacobellis’s heartbreaking 16-year wait for an Olympic snowboardcross gold medal is over

Lindsey Jacobellis’s heartbreaking 16-year wait for an Olympic snowboardcross gold medal is over after the Turin mistake in 2006.

The first gold medal for the United States at the 2022 Beijing Olympics is a very special one.

Lindsey Jacobellis was forever known for having a humongous lead in the 2006 Turin Olympics finals in snowboardcross before trying a trick out before the finish line and crashing. She got a silver that year, and since then? She didn’t get into the medal round in the 2010 and 2014 Games.

In 2018? She finished in fourth.

Not this time. She won gold in Beijing, at 36 years old, making her the oldest snowboarder ever to medal. What a story. No more talk of that mistake in 2006. Now, she’s forever a gold medalist.