Paul Oberjuerge: More Lindsay

On grabbing the snowboard on the second-to-last jump: "Definitely the grab was not the best choice to be strategy, but I was having fun and that's what snowboarding is. But grabbing, if you see any of my races, grabbing is part of getting me back on the ground."

Had she heard her result was making news? "Yeah, of course I did, I've been having questions asked all night of it."

Is she OK with how it turned out? "I think so ... it's just a race, and anything can happen."

"Just" a race? "Yes. It's just a title. It's really ... I have the first silver for snowboardcross ever. You have to give me something."

Explain again what happened, please: "I just went at the jump because I was having fun and snowboarding is fun and I was feeling great that I was ahead and I wanted to share with the crowd my enthusiasm but, you know, I messed up and, oh well, it happens."

Congratulations on getting silver: "Thank you. There's very few people who say that."

How common is it to throw a grab at the end? "I don't know, I've seen people do it, and I've done it before myself. It's just a freaky thing, yeah, and you can see with all the guys, they throw grabs ... grab their board to sometimes be more strategic to help them with their balance, but it didn't happen to me."

Will you be able to move on from this? "Yeah, I can move on. It's just a race. I still won a silver. Still something to come here for. Someone would still trade in silver for no race at all. I have a teammate who got hurt and wasn't even able to compete. Gotta look at it that way, it could always be worse."

Do you think Americans are perceived as showoffs, and are you afraid you reinforced that? "No, I don't think that at all. Just because Americans have done well doesn't mean we're showboating. It means we're all athletes and excited to be here."

Note: Reporters were waiting to ask more questions when someone broke into the call and said, "Two more questions." Someone began to ask a question, and the same voice said, "We're at the medals ceremony. Just got there. Thank you."

That was that. At the hockey venue, anyway, several reporters believed Jacobellis' voice was cracking with emotion over the final 4-5 questions.

My thought: The media liaison still hadn't tumbled to the fact that Jacobellis was going to get some hard questions, and bailed on the interview when Jacobellis began reacting badly to it.