BEIJING — In four Olympics, Nick Baumgartner was missing just one thing.
“One of these medals,” he said tearfully after a 10th-place finish in men’s snowboard cross on Thursday.
He finally got it two days later. The 40-year-old, who is the oldest American snowboarder in Olympic history, earned his first Olympic medal Saturday, taking gold with Lindsey Jacobellis in mixed team snowboard cross at Genting Snow Park.