Snowboard Slopestyle Champs!

This event is AWESOME and apparently the U.S.A Olympic team is pretty good at it too. This is one of the newest events in the Winter Olympics because Slopestyle is only making its second appearance ever. The only other time that Slopestyle was an event was in the 2014 Sochi games. It is a unique event that uses terrain park features that snowboarders (and Skiers) must ride down and do tricks to impress a panel of judges all while not falling down. So far in the history of this event, which hasn’t been that long, American’s have won all of the snowboard Slopestyle gold metals and all but one ski Slopestyle gold medals as of February 16, 2018. The biggest upset in this event ever happened at this years winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, were a 17 year old kid, Red Gerald, had a incredible final run allowing him to win an upset gold metal. After he won, Red said that he wasn’t even projected to make the finals. Better yet, this was the first medal for team U.S.A in that years Olympics.

Red Gerard preparing to make a run though the course at the 2018 Olympics

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