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Lindsey Jacobellis and Nick Baumgartner become the oldest snowboarders to win any Olympic medal with mixed team victory

Nick Baumgartner and Lindsey Jacobellis won gold in mixed team snowboard cross, but allegations of misconduct against their coach made Saturday a difficult day to process.

The stereotype of action sports as the domain of the young and the cool is long out of date. The demographics of these sports – surfing, skateboarding, snowboarding, climbing, mountain biking – have been expanding to include more girls and women, queer and non-binary people and older participants.

BEIJING — Lindsey Jacobellis on Wednesday won the first gold medal for USA at the Beijing Games, besting the field in snowboard cross.

Now 36 and in her fifth Olympics, she became the oldest U.S. woman to win a gold.

Lindsey Jacobellis won the gold at the Beijing Olympics after dramatic fall in Turin 2006

Lindsey Jacobellis's heartbreaking 16-year wait for an Olympic snowboardcross gold medal is over after the Turin mistake in 2006.

The 36-year-old won gold in snowboard cross, conquering the competition, more than a decade’s worth of demons and the 2006 moment that almost defined her.

Lindsey Jacobellis finally takes glory, but it is an agonising day for medal hopes Mikaela Shiffrin and Charlotte Bankes