Medal Moments 2024
Gerard Slays X Games Demons for Slopestyle Gold
Men's Snowboard Slopestyle Aspen 2024 Revisited
Gerard Slays X Games Demons for Slopestyle Gold
Red Gerard ended years of frustration and finally captured the only major slopestyle title that had eluded him: X Games gold. Gerard, whose previous best finish was bronze (in 2020) from 8 previous XG Slopestyle starts, looked great in practice all week on a rail-heavy course well-suited to his strengths. That carried over to the final, when he stomped clean runs in all three passes and improved incrementally with each, climaxing with an eye-popping 97.00 in his final run. It was enough to narrowly edge Mark McMorris, the GOAT and two-time defending XG Aspen champ.
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Red entered XG Aspen 2024 with a superb slopestyle résumé: He’s the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics gold medalist, a two-time Burton U.S. Open winner, a two-time Dew Tour champ and owns 4 World Cup slopestyle victories in addition to a FIS World Cup Slopestyle Crystal Globe from 2017. And now he has X Games gold. “F**k yeah!” he yelled in cathartic relief in the corral.
Though McMorris was thwarted for three-peat gold, silver extends his record for most X Games winter discipline medals to 23. He’s now tied for 4th on the all-time XG medal chart, behind only Bob Burnquist, Dave Mirra and Nyjah Huston. The stone cold contest killer now has medaled in 14 of his 16 career X Games Slopestyle starts.
Mons Roisland rounded out the podium, earning his 5th X Games Slopestyle medal and 8th overall XG podium.
Rewatch the podium runs from X Games Aspen 2024 below!