United States’ Redmond Gerard became the first Winter Olympics gold medallist born this millennium with a surprise snowboard slopestyle gold medal on day two of the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang. At 17 years and 227 days, Gerard became the second youngest male athlete to win an individual gold medal at a Winter Games, after Finnish ski jumper Toni Nieminen in 1992. “After I landed the second jump I was like, ‘Come on, don’t blow it on the last jump, let’s just make it through’. It feels awesome.”Gerard competes in the men’s snowboard slopestyle finals. Andrew Musgrave secured the best Winter Olympics result by a British cross-country skier with seventh as Norway claimed a clean sweep of the 30-kilometres skiathlon podium on day two in Pyeongchang.

Source: The Irish Times February 11, 2018 15:00 UTC