The article profiles snowboarder Lindsey Jacobellis, who is set to compete at the Torino Winter Olympics in February 2006. Jacobellis won her third straight gold medal at the 2005 X Games and a World Championship in snowboardcross. Her penchant for wearing scarves on th...
At five Winter Olympic appearances, Jacobellis is in great company, among her onetime U.S. teammates**,Shaun White** andKelly Clarkwho both boast five Olympic Games appearances. But, unlike White and Clark, Jacobellis still has her board in the start gate, with the potential to compete...
Sixteen years after a fall in Torino resulted in silver, 36-year-oldLindsey Jacobellisdug deep Wednesday at her fifth Winter Games to capture the elusive title she's been pursuing for nearly two decades, simultaneously claiming Team USA's first gold of the 2022 Winter Olympics. For the m...
Sixteen years ago, CT's Lindsey Jacobellis was only seconds away from winning her first Gold Medal in the 2006 Winter Games in Turin, Italy, but with one more jump left to do, she became careless. Jacobellis tried to add a flourish to her last jump, and she went down hard while Switze...
Lindsey Jacobellis is an American snowboarder who is one of the world’s top competitors in the alpine event known as snowboard cross. In that event multiple riders race simultaneously down a course that includes jumps, banked turns, and other features.