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This Cleveland Olympian is riding a snowboard covered in hometown pride and 45 family members are in Milan to
MILAN – If Rocky River’s Red Gerard finds his way back onto an Olympic podium in the coming days, Clevelanders can take pride that they had a little something to do with it.
The 25-year-old snowboarder won gold at the 2018 Winter Games in Pyeongchang in slopestyle but finished fourth four years later in Beijing, while finishing fifth in big air in both 2018 and 2022. He will begin qualifying Thursday in big air, with the final set for Saturday. The competition in slopestyle – his stronger event – starts on Feb. 16.
Unlike his previous two Olympic appearances, the sport’s now-established superstar has arrived at the venue in Livigno with his own unique new “pro” model snowboard. It pays tribute to his Cleveland roots, complete with a map of the city and an image of one of the Guardians of Traffic on Hope Memorial Bridge. It’s helping to give him plenty of inspiration in what could be his final Olympic Games.
3 Colorado snowboarders — Vail’s Ollie Martin, Silverthorne’s Red Gerard and Aspen’s Jake Canter — are Olympic medal threats
Whether it’s a long flight to an Austrian glacier for an extended training camp or a quick commute to Copper Mountain, Ollie Martin — from the time he was a kid — has always passed the travel time fiddling around with a miniature snowboard figurine.
The toy wasn’t about to get left behind for the Olympics.
“My mom made me bring it,” Martin said at a press conference in Livigno, Italy on Tuesday. “Honestly that toy was really helpful for me. I could use it to visualize. I was able to come up with some tricks with that toy. Sounds silly, but it was actually really helpful.”
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