Red Gerard prepares to drop into the men's snowboard slopestyle course at the 2025 X Games in Aspen on Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025. Gerard defended his 2024 X Games gold medal, taking first overall ...

Red Gerard, a 17-year-old from Colorado, made history this past weekend as the youngest person ever to win an Olympic gold medal for snowboarding. By a lot of measures, he shouldn’t have been.