Complex sentence: Ruby won the giant slalom event in the snowboarding competition at the 1998 Winter Olympics held in Nagano, Japan, overcoming severe weather conditions to win the first Olympic gold medal awarded in the event to a woman.
Split into simpler sentences: Ruby won the giant slalom event in the snowboarding competition at the 1998 Winter Olympics held in Nagano, Japan. She overcame severe weather conditions to win the first Olympic gold medal awarded in the event to a woman.