You gotta love the snowboard culture. The jeans wearing, flannel shirt, anti-establishment persona seemingly all snowboard athletes seem to convey. Snowboarders do what they want when they want and even gold medal Olympic ambitions aren’t enough to convince some to put all the hot dogging and grandstanding on hold and just focus on the task at hand.

Lindsey Jacobellis seems to personify this snowboard culture to a hilt. You would think that after her Turin run should would have learned but I guess not. As in Turin four years earlier Jacobellis could not resist attempting a trick on her downhill run, and, to put it mildly, ate snow. Then again in 2006 style and flare prevailed in her mind, as another flub would cost her gold. And now in 2010 on a disqualified run Jacobellis decides to grab her board and showboat for the crowd finishing in fifth place. I guess these snowboarders like to do things their own way, but at what cost?

For Lindsey Jacobellis I guess style is all that really matters. What do you think?