If you’re not Swiss or not Tanja Frieden, you’re going to have a difficult time. But it’s likely you know Lindsey Jacobellis, the silver medalist whose split-second decision late in the race not only cost her the win but forever kept her in a time capsule in our public conscience.
A dozen years later, she was back in an Olympic final, this time finishing fourth at Phoenix Snow Park on Friday.
She’s the most accomplished woman in her sport, but Jacobellis finds herself still living in the shadow of a race she didn’t win when she was 20.