Olympic Update:
–Lindsey Jacobellis won the United States’ first gold medal in Beijing in the snowboardcross final. It came 16 years after Jacobellis blew a gold medal in the 2006 Turin Games when she pulled a showboat move on the final jump with a big lead and fell, and had to settle for silver.
Mikaela Shiffrin suffered another early fall in the slalom event just days after an early fall in the giant slalom. Shiffrin was a medal-favorite in five events.
American Colby Stevenson won the silver medal in the Olympics’ first men’s freestyle skiing big air event.
Current medal standings early today–the Russian Olympic Committee is in first place with 10 medals, followed by Norway with nine and Austria with eight. In the gold medal count, Norway and Sweden both have four, and the Netherlands, Germany and China all have three. The U.S. has seven medals overall, one gold, five silver and one bronze.
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