LINDSAY JACOBELLIS snatched defeat from the jaws of victory yesterday in a manner that would have made Devon Loch proud, in the women’s snowboard cross final at Bardonecchia.

SHELLEY RUDMAN surged to an Olympic silver medal in her first full season last night with a sensational second run in the women’s skeleton at Cesana Pariol.

REIGNING Olympic women’s downhill champion Carole Montillet-Carles was among three racers taken to hospital as a series of spectacular crashes marred the second day of official training.