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Teen Olympian overslept after Netflix binge and still won gold
Gold medalist Red Gerard had a rough morning the day of his win — oversleeping thanks to a late-night Netflix binge.
The 17-year-old snowboarder — who won the first US gold medal Sunday — zonked out the night before while watching the FOX show “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” and slept 20 minutes past his 6 a.m. alarm, Yahoo reported.
“Red, you out of bed yet?” his roommate and teammate Kyle Mack asked him at the time.
Eventually, he rolled out of bed, grabbed a ham, egg and cheese with avocado, his roommate’s puffy jacket because he couldn’t find his, and bolted to the hill where he would later strike gold.
When Gerard saw his score of 87.16 out of 100 in slopestyle snowboarding, he let out an f-bomb on network TV, saying “What the f–k? Hoooly sh-t.”
“I actually said going into all the contests that I’d love fourth place,” he later told Yahoo. “But first place is better, I got to say.”
He then celebrated his win with friends and family who had been waiting for him at the bottom of the slope and who had been shotgunning beers since 8:30 in the morning, in anticipation of his win, USA Today reported.
Gerard, of Colorado, is the youngest person ever to win a gold medal for snowboarding.
Fans of the Olympian said they could relate — at least to his rough morning.
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