The running joke was American snowboardcross racer Nick Baumgartner always referring to them as a pair of 40-somethings, according to AP.

“I’m 36,” Lindsey Jacobellis playfully corrected time after time in interview after interview.

For these two, and all their vast experience, age proved to be one thing — golden.

Jacobellis won her second title of the Beijing Olympics, teaming with Baumgartner to capture the new event of mixed team snowboardcross on Saturday.

After a slow start at the Beijing Olympics, the U.S. now has five gold medals and 11 overall. Jacobellis accounts for two, while snowboarder Chloe Kim has another. The Americans have also won two new Olympic events contested at the Genting Snow Park — mixed team aerials and now mixed team snowboardercross.

Although the unique snowboarding discipline made its Olympic debut in China, the event has been featured for nearly a decade at numerous World Cup stops.

It’s a competition that features a male and female rider from the same country being paired up and placed into a multi-team bracket. When the male racer crosses the line, the time advantage he holds over the next competitor is applied to his female teammate. The female rider then begins the run and the top two teams advance round by round until the final.

Baumgartner gave Jacobellis a slender lead after his run in the final. Jacobellis, of course, closed it out, holding off the Italian team of Omar Visintin and Michela Moioli by O.2 seconds. The Canadian duo of Eliot Grondin and Meryeta O’Dine finished third after O’Dine was able to scramble and edge another Italian team after an early-in-the-race wipeout ith another Italian team.

Source: Azerbaijan State News Agency