Posted February 11, 20187 yr Red Gerard wins gold in men's slopestyle final at Phoenix Snow Park. (Kin Cheung/Associated Press) By Adam Kilgore February 10 at 9:27 PM Email the author BONGPYEONG, South Korea — Red Gerard carried his board, just about as tall as him, in his right hand and raised his left fist in the air. Chants of “U-S-A!” filled the bottom of the slopestyle course, many coming from brothers who had ushered him into the sport. Minutes earlier, Gerard had stood in last place out of 11 riders still alive in the men’s slopestyle finals. Now, he awaited his score after an electrifying run that ended with an audacious trick — the Backside triple cork 1440. The score flashed: 87.16. It had vaulted him into first. Gerard, a 17-year-old snowboarder from Cleveland by way of Colorado, won the United States’ first medal of the PyeongChang Olympics here Sunday afternoon, earning a stunning gold in men’s slopestyle with a creative final run that ended with a spinning, acrobat final jump, his 115-pound, 5-foot-5 frame flying through the mountain chill. https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/olympics/red-gerard-wins-first-us-medal-of-pyeongchang-olympics-earning-for-mens-slopestyle/2018/02/10/1d7f73ce-0ebf-11e8-95a5-c396801049ef_story.html?utm_term=.96cd55d23033
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