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9.23.08
Jacobellis Takes SBX World Cup Opener
New England riders Shaw and Cheever also make the
Top 10.
Vermont's Lindsey
Jacobellis busted open the snowboardcross World Cup season in a way only
the three-time X Games gold medalist could
—
dominating a stacked international field to win the first race in the
eight competition season schedule in Argentina on September 13.
The win marked
Jacobellis' 15th World Cup career victory. "I'm happy. I'm a competitive
girl so if I start I want to win. Now, I can go home and tell my coach
that he did a great job," Jacobellis said.
Jacobellis was
followed by Connecticut's Brooke Shaw in sixth. On the men's side,
another New Englander —
Jonathan Cheever of Saugus, Massachusetts
—
finished sixth. It was Cheever's highest placing yet in World Cup
competition.
The snowboardcross
World Cup competition continues in December in Arosa, Switzerland.
-U.S. Snowboarding |
