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    2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics

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    I love watching Snowboard events. Red did great! He's 17 what a career ahead of him, he started snowboarding when he was 2 years old born in Westlake, Ohio in 2000. It was a family move to Colorado, near Breckenridge, that catalyzed his development in the sport. By age 11, he had a sponsorship deal with Burton. The rest is now, officially, history.

     

    Gerard has a BIG family — that is having a lot of fun in Pyeongchang

    Red is the sixth of seven children. He has four brothers — Brendan, Creighton, Malachi, and Trevor — and two sisters — Asher and Tieghan. The Gerard squad came to Pyeongchang in full force.

    Red Gerard wins first U.S. Gold at 2

    A Little Good News

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    Fire victims get generous donation from woman touched by story

    An act of kindness is helping a single mother and daughter after a devastating fire in Mt. Airy, Ohio.

     

    Brittany and Zyaire Richardson were sleeping when their apartment building caught fire on W. North Bend Road early Monday morning. They had to jump from their second floor balcony to safety.

     

    "(We lost) everything. I don't have nothing but what I have on, and my keys and that's it. I don't have anything," Richardson told WLWT on Monday.

     

    Kristen McKenzie said she saw the story on WLWT News 5 and wanted to help.

     

    "She just looked devastated. She looked like she was so lost and just didn't know where to turn and I just started crying," McKenzie said.

     

    McKenzie immediately took action and was able to connect with the Richardsons to give them a generous donation in gift cards to local stores and restaurants so they can buy new things for their home and spend some quality time together as mother and daughter.

     

    "It's not too often that I feel like people help and for her, reaching out to two people that she doesn't even know just, like, warms my heart," Brittany Richardson said.

     

    "I feel great because the fire was really scary. So when my mom, she really helped me out and this lady, she really helped us," Zyaire Richardson said.

     

    The Richardsons are staying with family while they search for a new apartment and they plan to stay in touch with their new friend McKenzie.

     

    "We have to all learn to just give back, even if it's at this little local level and I couldn't sleep at night if I didn't do something," McKenzie said.

    A Little Good News

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    Snowboarder goes from coma to winter Olympics medal contender

     

    “What I love when it comes to my discipline of snowboarding: The only person who decides whether I win or lose is me,” he said. “I don’t have a judge. I have complete control over my outcome.”

     

    Muss, who is ranked 16th in the world, heads to Japan Feb. 2 for an acclimation period. He will attend the Feb. 9 opening ceremony, and then it’s just a matter of staying sharp until the Feb. 21 qualifying rounds. The finals are Feb. 23.

     

    “I’m not going to the Olympics just to be at the Olympics,” he said. “I’m going there to win a medal.”

     

    His family, including professional-surfer sister Alexa Muss, will be at the bottom of the hill, rooting him on.

     

    “We are so elated,” Arlette Muss said.

     

    She knows if A.J. makes it to the medal stand, his story could inspire countless people.

     

    “The main thing A.J. wants kids to know is that they can do it,” she said. “Go out there and believe in yourself. It definitely hasn’t been easy, but each time there has been adversity, it actually made him that much stronger.”

     

    And wiser.

     

    “Appreciate the journey,” he said, “because it can be taken from you at any time.”

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