Red Gerard hangs on by a thread to squeeze into slopestyle final as Menzies leads qualifying
McMorris, the event’s three-time reigning bronze medalist, hit his head in a crash during practice earlier in the Games and had to sit out of the big air contest with a concussion. The legend went big on his first-run jumps: switch backside 1620, backside triple cork 1440 and frontside 1440. “I had confidence from our…