20-year-old American Sage Kotsenburg made history earlier this morning by winning the first Olympic gold medal in snowboard slopestyle.
Shortly after taking the top step of the podium alongside silver medalist Staale Sandbech of Norway and bronze medalist Mark McMorris of Canada, Kotsenburg expressed his joy over the result with an exuberant tweet:
WOW!! I just won the Olympics!! Bringing back the first Gold here to the USA! Love seeing all the support from everyone YOU RULE!!
— sage kotsenburg (@sagekotsenburg) February 8, 2014
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Kotsenburg has also received Twitter props from some of his peers for claiming the gold. Here’s three of his fellow American snowboarders - Chas Guldemond, Nick Baumgartner and Justin Reiter - hailing the new champion.
So stoked for @sagekotsenburg @sagegetting the 1st #goldmedal of #Sochi2014 way to get it started 4 #ussnowboarding pic.twitter.com/GldDhvgsz1
— Nick B. (@nickbaumgartner) February 8, 2014
Congrats to @sagekotsenburg for stomping and styling his way to the first ever #Olympic #GoldMedal. pic.twitter.com/UTipq8CiT3
— Justin Reiter (@justin_reiter) February 8, 2014
