Red Gerard, 17 is the youngest Olympic snowboarding champion to win Team USA a golden medal at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. After his shocking win, he expresses his gratitude on Instagram.
Red Gerard took to Instagram hours ago posting a winning shot of he and other two competitors holding the gold medal. Gerard captioned “The last 24 hours have been so much more amazing than I can even explain. Speechless. Olympic BABY.”
We can feel his level of astonishment after watching his Instagram caption. He seems really eager to share his winning happiness with his followers and does it well. The fans appreciate his winning talent with comments and likes.
After two rounds Gerard was in 11th place but when he pulls his final spectacular effort nobody were able to stop the American teenager to win the men’s slopestyle snowboarding. Since 1928, Gerard is the only champion who brought an Olympic winter medal home.
Gerard scored 87.16 to beat Max Parrot & McMorris in his final run. “I cannot believe what has just happened- it is insane,” said Gerard to BBC