BEYOND THE GOLD STANDARD
Sep 10, 2020
2 minutes
BY LUCAS KAPLAN
to come easily—maybe even accidentally—to snowboarder Red Gerard. Soaring high in the slopestyle at the 2018 Olympics, Gerard became the youngest American male to win a gold medal since the Great Depression. The media seized on what they deemed ultra–Gen Z about the 17-year-old: his supposed devil-may-care attitude, including how
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