Redmond Gerard, 17, made history on Saturday when he took home the Olympic gold medal in snowboarding slopestyle at the Pyeongchang Olympic Winter Games, but he was almost late for the competition.
Gerard, the youngest person to ever win a snowboarding gold medal for Team USA, said he overslept on the morning of the big competition because he stayed up late the night before.
“Me and my buddy were just watching Netflix ,” Gerard told Jimmy Kimmel on “Live” Tuesday.
It was a size small jacket and I had to step it up to a large, so I'm talking it was down at my thighs,” he added.
Gerard, a native of Cleveland, also admitted that he wasn’t a huge fan of the Olympic Games.
When asked if he thought the Olympics might mean more to a 40-years-old versus a 17-year-old, Gerard replied: “For sure.”
Gerard beat Canadian riders Max Parrot and Mark McMorris in this year's slopestyle snowboarding competition, making him the youngest American man to win a Winter Olympic gold medal since 1928.
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