Showboating costs USA snowboarder the Gold

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This will air on NBC tonight:lolBIG:

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Show jumping costs Jaco the gold
By EDDIE PELLS, AP National Writer


BARDONECCHIA, Italy (AP) -- Alone in the clear, Lindsey Jacobellis could have practically crawled to the finish line and won.

After an Olympic-sized flub, she probably wishes she had.

Coasting to what should have been a runaway victory Friday, the 20-year-old American grabbed her board on the second-to-last jump before the finish line. Inexplicably -- and some say inexcusably -- she fell.

"I was caught up in the moment," Jacobellis said.

While she scrambled to her feet, Switzerland's Tanja Frieden caught up and sped past Jacobellis to become the first champion in the strange and wild sport of Olympic women's snowboardcross. Jacobellis settled for silver.

Then, the debate began.

"She definitely styled that a little too hard," U.S. snowboarding coach Peter Foley said, after looking at a frame-by-frame breakdown of the jump taken by Associated Press photographers.

Jacobellis was so far ahead as she approached the fateful jump that Frieden couldn't even be seen in the early frames of the AP photo breakdown.

So, the question is, should Jacobellis have gone for the so-called "backside method grab" she attempted at the end -- a trick she rarely tries and one that included a flashy 60-degree twist right in front of the grandstands?

To many, it was blatant hot-dogging. In the moments after the race, Jacobellis insisted it was pretty much standard operating procedure and that she did it only to "create stability."

A few hours later, in a conference call, she held to that point, but also conceded there might have been some showboating going on.

"I was having fun," she said. "Snowboarding is fun. I was ahead. I wanted to share my enthusiasm with the crowd. I messed up. Oh well, it happens."

She went tumbling after the jump, which she had executed cleanly in her four previous runs through qualifying and the early rounds of finals.

Foley fell to the ground in shock. Jacobellis' family and friends, dressed in funky red-white-and-blue hats in the stands, stared at the finish line with their mouths agape.

"She just tweaked it too hard," Foley said after looking at the AP photos. "Definite styling on that jump. That's a good stable grab but she pulled it across too far, definitely, for it to be safe."
 

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She gets a membership to the Leon Lett club with this bonehead move
 

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WOW, she bleeeeew it!

She was lucky they all didn't pass her...can you imagine not even medalling!?
 

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I guess she could be like Red Eye

And refuse to acknowledge she blew the gold, since she really would have won.:missingte
 

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That whole race was brutal, That first one that went off the course hauled off on a strecher and the won that won the bronze came back from a spill.
 

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Wrigley said:
That whole race was brutal, That first one that went off the course hauled off on a strecher and the won that won the bronze came back from a spill.

Lot of injuries in this Olympics
 

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She finally admited to Bob she was trying to show off a little, she had a big lead and its a move she has done many times before.
 

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Jacobellis, you showboating, cocky bitch. Congrats for losing the gold dumbass. The all-time choke in the history of the Olympics.
 

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She deserves to lose it with the way she showboated at the end. I don't feel bad for her
 

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They should all lose medals. How is this crap an Oly sport?
 

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that's the same girl on the VISA commercial isn't it?? The one where the coach says" Imagine your VISA check card got stolen", and then she smiles and goes off to ski
 

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ego74 said:
that's the same girl on the VISA commercial isn't it?? The one where the coach says" Imagine your VISA check card got stolen", and then she smiles and goes off to ski

Thats her
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Chuck Sims said:
Jacobellis, you showboating, cocky bitch. Congrats for losing the gold dumbass. The all-time choke in the history of the Olympics.

please. this is almost a non issue. she fell at the end of some strange event that nobody will even remember. she had some fun, she was much the best and a fluke occured.

Recall Lance Armstrong going no handed holding up 7 fingers, drinking wine, waving to the fans on the last leg, showboating for a photo op, if he wipes out and breaks his leg hes done. Is he therefore the biggest jerkoff in the history of sports for showboating a bit at the end? I dont think so.
 

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That's what americans are good at, showboating. Just look at the NBA after every dunks.
 

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People still remember Dan Jansen falling might of been the best think to happen to him, he has cashed in big.

So maybe this will end up being $$$ for her in the long run
 

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