Lindsey Jacobellis

On February 16th, 2006, twenty-year old American snowboarder Lindsey Jacobellis was poised to win the first gold medal in women’s snowboard cross. With a seemingly insurmountable lead over other competitors all she needed was a clean run and the gold medal would be hers. But as Lindsey entered the last 100 meters the unthinkable happened, choosing to add some flare to the run, she grabbed the back edge of her board then lost her balance and fell. She writes about all of those times in her new novel “Unforgiving: Lessons of the Fall.”