29.01.2010 23:35 Uhr, Quelle: Engadget german
Lindsey Jacobellis Puts Past Behind Her
Filed under: USA, SnowboardTELLURIDE, Colo. (AP) -- To the snowboardcross and X-Games world in which she resides, she is Lindsey Jacobellis, the most dominant figure in her sport, a multiple champion at almost every level.To the rest of the world -- the world that pays attention to these things every four years at the Olympics -- she is that girl who lost the gold medal when she was trying to show off.Jacobellis has, she insists, put that ill-timed embarrassment from the 2006 snowboardcross final behind her, admitted the "method grab" and the ensuing tumble she took because of it -- when she was in the lead, far ahead of everyone -- was a mistake.But the 24-year-old Ver
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