{"id":53160,"date":"2018-02-12T08:36:22","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T16:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.46.6.243\/?p=53160"},"modified":"2018-02-12T08:36:22","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T16:36:22","slug":"red-gerard-takes-slopestyle-gold-for-u-s-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=53160","title":{"rendered":"Red Gerard Takes Slopestyle Gold For U.S.A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pyeongchang, South Korea&#8230;.Red Gerard (Silverthorne, Colo.) stomped the run of his life to win Team USA\u2019s first gold medal of the 2018 Olympic Winter Games Sunday in slopestyle snowboarding.  &#8220;I\u2019m just insanely excited right now,&#8221; said Gerard, who is the youngest Olympic snowboarding gold medalist ever. &#8220;I can\u2019t believe it all worked out. I just wanted to land a run. After falling on my second run, I was really excited for the third run.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Slope-Gold.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"338\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-53162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Slope-Gold.jpg 640w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Slope-Gold-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Slope-Gold-570x301.jpg 570w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Slope-Gold-150x79.jpg 150w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Slope-Gold-500x264.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Red Gerard won the gold medal in slopestyle snowboarding Sunday at the 2018 Olympic Winter Games at Phoenix Snow Park in Pyeongchang-gun, South Korea. (Getty Images &#8211; Clive Rose)<\/p>\n<p>Sitting well out of medal contention after crashing out on his first two of three runs, Gerard absolutely nailed his third run with a score of 87.16 and withstood a stout challenge from Canada&#8217;s Max Parrot, whose third and final run score of 86.00 was good enough for silver. Parrot&#8217;s teammate, Mark McMorris, tallied an 85.20 on his second run for his second consecutive Olympic bronze medal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When that score came up my jaw dropped,&#8221; Gerard said. &#8220;I was like \u2018this isn\u2019t real\u2019. I would have been happy to just land a run, but to land a run and win, it\u2019s crazy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gerard\u2019s gold medal was the second consecutive Olympic slopestyle snowboarding gold for Team USA, dating back to the 2014 Games when Sage Kotsenburg won. Jamie Anderson also won the women&#8217;s slopestyle&#8217;s snowboarding event at the 2014 Games, which was the sport&#8217;s slopestyle Olympic debut. Anderson will defend her gold when the women&#8217;s competition begins with qualifying Sunday afternoon. <\/p>\n<p>From the US Ski &#038; Snowboard Team. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pyeongchang, South Korea&#8230;.Red Gerard (Silverthorne, Colo.) stomped the run of his life to win Team USA\u2019s first gold medal of the 2018 Olympic Winter Games Sunday in slopestyle snowboarding. &#8220;I\u2019m just insanely excited right now,&#8221; said Gerard, who is the youngest Olympic snowboarding gold medalist ever. &#8220;I can\u2019t believe it all worked out. 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