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Snowboard cross season ends on high note for U.S.

By Helene Elliott
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Nick Baumgartner of Iron River, Mich., finished second in the final World Cup snowboard cross event of the season Friday in Valmalenco, Italy, giving him third place in the overall World Cup standings.

Markus Schairer of Austria finished first in the overall standings and Seth Westcott of Sugarloaf, Maine, was second. Among the women, Lindsey Jacobellis of Stratton Mountain, Vt., didn’t compete Friday but still finished first in the overall World Cup standings.

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‘I knew how important it was to have a great year this year to set myself up for making the Olympic team because we have such depth,’ Baumgartner told the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Assn.

-- Helene Elliott

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Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

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