17-year-old wins US' 1st gold medal at 2018 Winter Olympics
Seventeen-year-old snowboarder Redmond Gerard won the first gold medal for the United States at this year's Winter Olympics on Sunday, with his victory in the snowboarding slopestyle competition. Competing in temperatures of -13ÂºC, Gerard, the youngest participant in the competition, successfully landed a backside triple cork 1440 on his final attempt to clinch the gold.