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U.S. snowboarder Lindsey Jacobellis set a lot of firsts on her fifth try. The 36-year-old won her first gold medal on Wednesday (women’s snowboard cross) to give her country its first such hardware of the 2022 games. She also became the oldest American woman to win a Winter gold. You can call it redemption for her devastating loss (though she wouldn’t) at the 2006 Torino Olympics, during which she celebrated prior to crossing the finish line and wiped out. She also failed to medal in the Pyeongchang, Sochi and Vancouver Olympics. “I never thought of it that way [redemption],” she said. “That w…