At the Beijing Olympics, Snowboard Women's Snowboard Cross on the 9th, a 36-year-old veteran finally won a gold medal that he missed 16 years ago due to a "failure."
This player is Lindsey Jacobellis, the American representative of the Women's Snowboard Cross, who slides on undulating and curved courses on a snowboard and competes for ranking.
In the final of the 2006 Torino Games, where Snowboard Cross was adopted as a new event, he pulled away from the trailer and approached the jumping platform just before the goal, but he fell down trying to show off a technique unrelated to the game and ended up with a silver medal. Was there.
After this "failure" in Turin, Jacobellis hasn't been on the podium while competing in the Olympics, but in this tournament, where she has participated in five consecutive tournaments, she competes with young players. I won and advanced to the final.
In the final of her four, Jacobellis got off to a good start and took the lead, and she kept her lead by overcoming rivals who were catching up with accurate course taking.
And she landed on the jumping platform just before the goal, but she made a landing with a low-height jump, and she remained in a low position and finished in the top with a difference of 0.21 seconds to 2nd place.
At the moment of her goal, Jacobellis screamed with her smile on her chest, revealing her joy when she finally got her gold medal, which she missed 16 years ago. ..
Jacobellis, who won the first gold medal in the tournament for the United States, told AFP news agency, "Thanks to the experience of the Turin tournament, I have been fighting in this competition without losing my desire. 16 years ago. The level of the players is much higher than that of the team, so I feel unbelievable to win the championship. "