{"id":1304614,"date":"2019-03-01T15:28:52","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T22:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/?p=449593"},"modified":"2019-03-01T15:28:52","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T22:28:52","slug":"red-gerard-wins-first-burton-us-open-slopestyle-title-mark-mcmorris-third","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/red-gerard-wins-first-burton-us-open-slopestyle-title-mark-mcmorris-third\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Gerard wins first Burton US Open slopestyle title; Mark McMorris third"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Editor\u2019s note: This story will be updated.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Red Gerard celebrated at the top of the Burton US Open slopestyle course in Vail on Friday before his third and final run \u2014 a victory lap with first place already locked up. He was then tackled at the bottom by the rest of the field in congratulations.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, the Silverthorne resident and Olympic gold medalists best finish at the Burton US Open was fifth in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>All week, Gerard\u2019s Instagram feed has been littered with videos of him ripping apart the terrain park at Golden Peak. He won the men\u2019s slopestyle finals with a score of 80.5, his score from the first of three rounds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel insane. It\u2019s crazy. I never expected that I\u2019d be in the finals at the Open. To win one, I\u2019m speechless,\u201d Gerard said from the finish area.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BubkVtSBKjI\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_medium=loading&amp;utm_campaign=embed_locale_test\" data-instgrm-version=\"12\" readability=\"-7.55625\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sven Thorgren finished second with a score of 79.60 and Mark McMorris finished third with a score of 79.2.<\/p>\n<p><em>Assistant editor Ross Leonhart can be reached at 970-748-2984 and <a href=\"mailto:rleonhart@vaildaily.com\">rleonhart@vaildaily.com<\/a>. Follow him on Instagram at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/colorado_livin_on_the_hill\/?hl=en\">colorado_livin_on_the_hill<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/news\/red-gerard-wins-first-burton-us-open-slopestyle-title-mark-mcmorris-third\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Vail Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor\u2019s note: This story will be updated. Red Gerard celebrated at the top of the Burton US Open slopestyle course in Vail on Friday before his third and final run \u2014 a victory lap with first place already locked up. He was then tackled at the bottom by the rest of the field in congratulations. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1304614","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 07:46:40","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1304614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1304614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1304614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1304614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}