For the third straight Olympics Lindsey Jacobellis’ fell during her chase for Olympic gold. Leading comfortably in today’s semi-finals, she fell and never reached the finish line:
Jacobellis misjudged the second-to-last turn on the course, flew over a jump too fast, lost her balance and skidded onto her back. She raised her hands for leverage as she skittered into the middle of the course, hoping the momentum might pull her back to her feet. But the snow was too soft and Jacobellis was stuck.
Back in 2006 Jacobellis had the gold medal almost entirely wrapped up when she fell just feet from the finish line.
“I don’t think it has to do with the Olympics,” she said today, via John Branch in the New York Times. “It’s just on a fluke of when things work out for me and when they don’t.”
