The Rocky River native has solidified himself as one of the best snowboarders in the world. Will you watch Gerard compete this weekend at the Winter Olympics in Beijing? 🥇🏂 (via The Washington Post)
. The sensation he felt changed his career again. The validation of landing a run, hearing the crowd and seeing his score was seductive.
“There was a time where I wasn’t too happy about myself and the way I was going about things,” Gerard said. “Probably, my brother and agent had some times when they wanted to punch me in the face, and probably [I was] being a [jerk] and a spoiled little kid.” “It’s put on a whole new pedestal where you can put snowboarding on a map to way bigger people, and you need to take advantage of those opportunities,” Gerard said. “Otherwise, someone else will. You always think your opinion is the right one. At least I do.”One day in early December, Malachi scrolled on his phone and announced that longtime snowboard pro Chad Otterstrom had posted a photo of
Snowboarding has grown embedded in the Olympics — Gerard wasn’t alive when it debuted at the 1998 Nagano Games — and far more commercialized. Still, conflict remains between the purity of the pursuit and the competition of the sport. Even as Gerard has embraced competitions, he can feel the tension between wanting to win — and what comes with winning — and maintaining what he loves about snowboarding.“It seems like it happens to some people,” Gerard said. “Maybe that’s what happened to Shaun.
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