The US team are the first Olympic champions in the mixed snowboard cross, taking gold at the Beijing Winter Games on Saturday. The maiden mixed team event – featuring one man and one woman per team per race – was held in heavy snow with poor visibility at times. The American team of Nick Baumgartner and Lindsey Jacobellis narrowly edged out Italy’s Omar Visintin and Michela Moioli who took silver. Baumgartner crossed the line first in the men’s wave, but it was Moioli who led the women’s for much of the race. Jacobellis was able to pass her in the final section of the course to cross the line …