America’s Seth Wescott Wins Gold In Men’s Snowboard Cross

Seth Wescott won gold in Monday’s Men’s Snowboard Cross, which by itself isn’t all that surprising, considering he also won gold in 2006. But considering his past two months -- Wescott has been battling both a knee and shoulder injury -- and today’s performance in qualifying -- was 17th out of 32 riders -- his win was pretty remarkable.

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Seth Wescott claimed America’s second gold medal of the 2010 Winter Olympics with his win late Monday afternoon in Men’s Snowboard Cross.

Wescott, the defending Olympic gold medalist, found himself in last place at the top of the race course, but fought his way back, passing Canada’s Mike Robertson in the final moments to win gold. Robertson took the silver, France’s Tony Ramoin won bronze and American Nate Holland, who spun out early, came in last in the four-man race.