Beijing Winter Olympics -- Feb. 8 Highlights

Beijing Winter Olympics - Highlights:

-- Lindsey Jacobellis won the first gold medal of the Olympics for the U.S., coming in first in snowboardcross. It came 16 years after Jacobellis blew a gold in the 2006 Turin Games when she pulled a showboat move on the final jump with a big lead and fell, and had to settle for silver. 

-- U.S. skier Mikaela Shiffrin, who came into Beijing a favorite to medal in five events, was out early in her second straight race. After crashing 11 seconds into her giant slalom race two days earlier, Shiffrin skidded and missed a gate five seconds into her first run in the slalom. She sat on the side of the course with her head in her hands for several minutes afterward. In an emotional NBC interview, Shiffrin said, “It makes me second-guess the last 15 years, everything I thought I knew about my own skiing and slalom and racing mentality.”

-- U.S. snowboarder Shaun White, a three-time Olympic gold medalist, qualified for the halfpipe final in fourth place, recovering from a fall on his first run. White fell on his signature trick, the Double McTwist 1260, and was in 19th place after his first run. But he nailed his second one, and since the best score counts, he’s heading to the final in fourth.

-- American Colby Stevenson won the silver medal in the Olympics’ first-ever men’s freestyle skiing big air event. Norway’s Birk Ruud won the gold.

-- American Jessie Diggins won bronze in the cross-country skiing sprint, the first U.S. woman to ever win an individual medal cross-country skiing. Sweden’s Jonna Sundling won gold and teammate Maja Dahlqvist took silver.

-- Germany’s Natalie Geisenberger won gold in the women’s luge, becoming the first woman to earn gold in the singles event in three Olympics, with 2014 and 2018.

-- Five female ski jumpers were disqualified from the mixed team final after their uniforms were ruled to be too large, potentially giving them an advantage. There were two women disqualified from Norway, and one each from Japan, Austria and Germany.
Medal Count: (As of 4:00 a.m. ET) - The Russian Olympic Committee is first with 10 medals, followed by Norway with nine and Austria with eight. In the gold medal count, Norway and Sweden both have four, and the Netherlands, Germany and China all have three. The U.S. has seven medals overall, one gold, five silver and one bronze.