Jacobellis, Holland top Snowboarder X

— -- ASPEN, Colo. -- Lindsey Jacobellis pushed past Eva Samkova and Helene Olafsen to win her eighth gold medal in the Snowboarder X race Friday, setting a record for golds by a woman in X Games history.

"With the last two years, what I've been through, it's like the icing on the cake," said Jacobellis, who has had several knee surgeries and a long recovery process since blowing out her left ACL at X Games Aspen 2012. The race was not contested at X Games Aspen 2013.

Jacobellis is headed to Sochi next month for her third Olympics, where she'll be aiming for her first gold after winning silver in 2006 and finishing fifth in 2010. She said the X Games win gives her the "best confidence I could have going into Sochi."

Jacobellis got a slow start out of the gate but made up for it farther down the course.

"That's always been my hardest thing, to get a good start, and I'm still not the first one out the gate, so I just try to work every feature and match, every landing, as best I can and try to get into a small tuck," she said.

Canadian rider Dominique Maltais, the X Games Aspen 2012 gold medalist, just missed the cut for finals, finishing her semifinal round in third place.