Olympic results 2018: Italy’s Michela Moioli wins gold in women’s snowboard cross final

Lindsey Jacobellis couldn’t find redemption in Pyeongchang. The 32-year-old snowboarder held the lead briefly in the 2018 Winter Olympics snowboard cross final, but it was Italy’s Michela Moioli who won gold.

Julia Pereira De Sousa Mabileau finished second to take silver. Czech Republic’s Eva Samkova rounded out the podium with a third-place finish.

Jacobellis’ quest for gold will have to wait another four years. The accomplished American, no doubt the best competitor snowboard cross has ever seen outside of Olympic competition, will once again leave the games without a medal after finishing .03 seconds off of the podium.

It’s another difficult defeat for the accomplished Jacobellis. She was primed to cruise to victory in 2006 when she took a three-second lead into the final two jumps of the course, but a botched method grab caused her to finish in second place. Crashes and errors in 2010 and 2014 only furthered the narrative of a tortured athlete who couldn’t come through when she needed to most.

Those failures obscured her dominance in other venues. She won gold five times at the World Championships and 10 times at the Winter X Games to assert her superiority and cement her place atop the sport’s pantheon. The one thing she was missing was that piece of Olympic hardware — and now she’ll have to wait another four years for another chance to earn it.