Snowboard Cross

Nick Baumgartner returned home to Michigan after winning an Olympic gold medal.

Austria’s Alessandro Hämmerle won gold in the men’s snowboard cross final in a split-second finish. Jake Vedder was the top U.S. snowboarder in the event, finishing sixth.

See all of the top moments from the sixth day of competition at the 2022 Winter Olympics.

Lindsey Jacobellis won gold in the women’s snowboard cross final, the first gold for the U.S. in the Winter Olympics, and redeemed herself sixteen years after an infamous last-minute blunder cost her gold in 2006.

Lindsey Jacobellis has officially completed her redemption tour. Sixteen years after famously losing a commanding lead in the final moments of the women’s snowboard cross, the 36-year-old has earned her place atop the podium and given the U.S. its first gold medal of the 2022 Winter Olympics. Jacobellis entered Beijing with high expectations. After opening her Olympic career with...

All four American women finished in the top two of their qualifying heats to advance to the quarterfinals of women’s snowboarding cross.

Alex Deibold explains snowbord cross with Legos.

The usual sting of an Olympic fourth-place finish did not accompany Lindsey Jacobellis’ words.

Austrian Snowboarder Markus Schairer broke his neck during the men’s snowboard cross quarterfinal in Pyeongchang Thursday, but officials said he did not sustain serious damage. Schairer fractured his fifth cervical vertebra during the race, the Austrian Olympic Committee said in a statement. Video of the crash showed him in fourth place heading into the final jump when he fell on...

Lindsey Jacobellis, the most decorated women’s snowboard cross athlete ever, will finish her fourth Olympics just like the first three: without a gold medal. Jacobellis, a five-time world champion, reached the finals of the event, then held onto a lead for the first two-thirds of the race. But she faded late, and finished in fourth place. Italian Michela Moioli, France’s...