It came at 36, in the latter stage of a long career that includes 30 individual World Cup wins, 10 X Games gold medals, six world championships and one Olympic silver medal from 2006. It made her the oldest snowboarder to medal at the Olympics and the oldest American woman to win gold — in any sport — at the Winter Games.

It was also Team USA’s eagerly awaited first gold medal in Beijing, which Jacobellis said felt fitting.

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Lindsey Jacobellis had the finish line in sight, again. Long the most dominant athlete in the racing sport of snowboard cross, she had been this way many times at the Olympics.

She had never gotten there first, though, not even back in 2006, when she had the lead to herself yards from the line and lost the gold in one of the best-known Olympics blunders in history.

On Wednesday, on her fifth Olympic try, at the age of 36, she would not let gold slip away again. Jacobellis finally captured her storybook ending while delivering the United States its first gold medal at the Beijing Games.

Hers is a tale of a gold medal, lost and then found, 16 years later.

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Lindsey Jacobellis deserves NBC prime-time coverage, big-font headlines, social media posts and to be the subject of whatever the COVID-19-era version of watercooler conversation is. That’s the kind of treatment she got 16 years ago, when she made one of the most infamous mistakes in Olympic history. It is what she absolutely deserves today.

Jacobellis just won gold in snowboard cross—beating three other finalists, half a lifetime’s worth of demons and the nagging sense that she would forever be remembered for not winning.

“I definitely have put 2006, obviously, in the past,” Jacobellis said Wednesday, “and have done a lot of soul-searching to realize that that moment doesn’t define me.”

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In Part 1 and Part 2 of this interview series, we discussed many things Olympics with snowboard cross specialist Lindsey Jacobellis, including her two surprising Gold Medals at Beijing, sponsorship opportunities following those Games, whether at 36 she’s too old for the next Olympics, and more.

Here, in this third and final part, she talks about what effect Covid-19 had on Beijing, her mentors in snowboarding, what she’s afraid of and her children’s book, “Sochi: A True Story.”

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Lindsey Jacobellis had gone 16 years in search of the Olympic gold medal that she squandered back in 2006, when she fell just before the finish line.

Now she has two.

The second came in mixed team snowboard cross, an event that made its Olympic debut on Saturday. The veteran American pairing of Jacobellis, 36, and Nick Baumgartner, 40, showed the younger athletes that they are not being slowed by age.

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Sitting next to Jacobellis, a 36-year-old who three days prior won her first Olympic medal, the pair of ‘80s kids laughed when they looked at the start list that showed every competitor’s birth year. Only one other racer was born in the 1980s.

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Lindsey Jacobellis picked up her 30th career individual world cup snowboardcross victory in Feldberg, Germany.

The four-time Olympian and five-time world champion earned her first world cup win of 2019, defeating Italy’s Michela Moioli and the Czech Republic’s Eva Samkova, the newly crowned 2019 world title holder, in the first event since Jacobellis finished fifth overall at the world championships in Solitude, Utah, at the beginning of the month.

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“I’ve qualified for four Olympics, and, like you said, I am the most decorated, and I’m still at it,” Jacobellis told Dixon in their post-race interview. “And, you know, I have several years on a lot of these younger girls, and I’m still in the mix, and I’m still defining this sport and pushing the level of it, and continuing to grow with it as well. And I don’t really plan on stopping any time soon.”

Jacobellis’ talent and perseverance makes her great. Her failures make her human. And her story has always been more complicated than it looks to those of us who only watch her perform once every four years.

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Lindsey Jacobellis and Mick ­Dierdorff combined to win the mixed-team snowboard cross competition for the Americans at the world championships Sunday in Solitude, Utah.

The tandem beat the Italian team of Michela Moioli and Omar Visintin for gold. The German squad of Paul Berg and Hanna Ihedioha earned bronze.

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The Super Girl Snow Pro will be hosted by 10-time X Games Gold Medalist and 4-time US Olympian, Lindsey Jacobellis on March 9-10, at Bear Mountain Resort. The competition is the only all female snowboarding competition in the world will feature top-level boardercross and big air competition.

Super Girl Snow Pro also serves as a developmental contest to help locate, nurture, mentor and encourage the next generation of aspiring female riders, as young as 8-years-old.

Watch Lindsey on GOOD MORNING SAN DIEGO