17-Year-Old Snowboarder Earns Team USA's First Gold Medal at the Korean Winter Olympics
Less than two days after the 2018 Winter Olympics officially opened in South Korea and Team USA has its first gold medal — all thanks to 17-year-old snowboarder Redmond “Red” Gerard.
“I cannot believe it. I’m shaking right now, maybe from the cold, or from the excitement, I don’t know,” he told reporters after finishing his third run in the men’s slopestyle snowboarding event on Sunday. “But I’m ecstatic.”
Appearing in his first Olympics, Gerard and the others braved brutal wind conditions on the mountains of Pyeongchang. He had a spotty performance in the first two of his...
“I cannot believe it. I’m shaking right now, maybe from the cold, or from the excitement, I don’t know,” he told reporters after finishing his third run in the men’s slopestyle snowboarding event on Sunday. “But I’m ecstatic.”
Appearing in his first Olympics, Gerard and the others braved brutal wind conditions on the mountains of Pyeongchang. He had a spotty performance in the first two of his...
- 2/11/2018
- by Adam Carlson
- PEOPLE.com
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