Opponents admire: I watched them play from birth! The 76-year-old American ski group won the gold medal to conquer the opponent
American Lindsey Jacobellis and partner Nick Baumgartner, aged 76, won the winter Olympics snowboard tracking mixed team event in Beijing yesterday.
Jacob Baylis, 36, and Baumgartner, 40, are the oldest duo on the field, beating their younger opponents by a slight margin yesterday in the snowboard slalom chase mixed team final.
Jacob Baylis won the first gold medal for the United States in the women's snowboard steeplechase earlier this week.
In the snowboard slalom chase mixed team final, Jacobelis fell behind at first and then continued to chase Italy's Michela Moioli on the track. She overtook Moioli at the last minute to win by a gap of 0.2 seconds.
The Canadian team finished the bronze, and one of the players, Eliot Grondin, said the U.S. team was really impressive. He said: "I've been watching these people play since I was born, and Nick [Baumgartner] is 20 years older than me, so it's incredible to play the final with these people. ”
Baumgartner told reporters after the final: "Absolutely do not exclude the elderly. He said he was able to pick up the gold thanks to years of training and competition.
"It's a very bad feeling for any athlete to be weeded out by the younger generation, so it's a really great feeling for us to work harder and be willing to put in the job, as long as we can step out and get certified to prove that our sword is not old," he said. ”
Jacob Bliss's gold medal earlier this week has been waiting for 16 years. At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, she missed the gold medal and won only the silver medal.
She said: "We did go through a lot of things, saw each other's ups and downs and struggles, so we were able to walk together and work together and learn from each other... I think we did well yesterday. ”
