America’ first gold medal on the 2018 Wintry weather Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, used to be gained via a youngster born in 2000.
Purple Gerard, 17, gained gold Saturday within the males’s snowboard slopestyle tournament with a last ranking of 87.16.
He’s the youngest American ever to medal in skiing and a few of the youngest U.S.-born athletes to win Olympic gold.
Gerard’s victory is the primary in what Workforce USA expects to be an excessively a success Olympics at the slopes, each in skiing and snowboarding occasions.
