Lindsey Jacobellis won gold in the snowboard cross in Beijing, conquering the competition, more than a decade’s worth of demons and the 2006 moment that almost defined her
BEIJING — Sports fans sometimes talk about an athlete “deserving” more attention, and the word always feels a bit off. These are people who are good at sports, and it’s fun to watch them and talk about them. But nobody reallyLindsey Jacobellis deserves NBC prime-time coverage, big-font headlines, social-media posts and to be the subject of whatever the COVID-era version of water-cooler conversation is.
Most Olympians live strange public lives. They compete in relative anonymity except for a two-week window every four years when America pays attention. In 2006, Jacobellis was branded as something worse than a loser. She was portrayed as indifferent to competition, the pretty young face of a bunch of goofy sports that didn’t belong in the Olympics. We all make mistakes; hers offended some people.
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