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Teenager Red Gerard snatched a dramatic gold medal in the men’s slopestyle to win the United States’ first gold of the Pyeongchang Games.
The 17-year-old scored 87.16 on his final run with just four other athletes left to complete their third run.
Canadian pair Max Parrot and Mark McMorris took silver and bronze respectively.
“I feel awesome and so stoked about today,” Gerard said. “I cannot believe what has just happened it is insane.”
Jamie Nicholls, Billy Morgan and Rowan Coultas all fell in qualifying on Saturday meaning there were no Britons in the final.
Gerard made mistakes in his first two runs but produced a clean final effort which was well rewarded by the judges.
He was just 13 when Sage Kotsenburg won slopestyle gold for the US at the 2014 Games in Sochi.
Until the late stages of the final run it had looked like McMorris would take an emotional gold medal, less than 12 months after a near-fatal crash.
Last March he suffered a fractured jaw, left arm, pelvis and ribs, ruptured spleen and a collapsed lung after colliding with a tree when snowboarding and led with a score of 85.20 from his second run.
Parrot almost climbed to the top of the standings with an excellent final run of the competition but had to settle for silver with a score of 86.00.
Some of the finalists struggled in gusty conditions, particularly in the first run, on the same day the men’s downhill event was postponed due to high winds.
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Strong winds disrupt day two in South Korea
While the men’s slopestyle event was completed, women’s qualifying was cancelled before an athlete was able to complete a run because of strong winds.
As a result all athletes have progressed into Monday’s final, which begins at 01:00 GMT, and will compete in two runs rather than three.
The weather had earlier caused the postponement of the men’s downhill, one of the major events in the Games.
The downhill will now take place on Thursday at 02:00 GMT with Austria’s defending champion Matthias Mayer, Switzerland’s Beat Feuz and Norwegian veteran Aksel Lund Svindal among the contenders.
Remaining medal events on day two
06:15-08:10: Cross country skiing – men’s 15km + 15km skiathlon
07:00-09:15: Speed skating – men’s 5,000m final
09:50-12:35: Luge – men’s final runs
10:30-11:00 & 12:00-14:30: Moguls – women’s final
11:15-12:55: Biathlon – men’s 10km sprint
Other news lines on day two
- Comments made by Semen Elistratov are being investigated by Olympic officials after they appeared to break the rules about making political statements. Elistratov, competing for Olympic Athletes from Russia (OAR), dedicated his speed skating medal to Russian athletes excluded from the Games.
- Officials now know the problem behind the cyber attack during the opening ceremony – but haven’t revealed what it was
- The spectator seating had to be rearranged on day one to allow North Korean cheerleaders to sit together
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Teenager Gerard wins first gold for US