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Rocky River native Red Gerard failed to qualify Thursday for the finals of the Men’s Snowboard Big Air competition at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy, according to WKYC, media partner to cleveland.com.

Hosts Italy are embarrassed days before the start of the Winter Olympics - with their biathlete Rebecca Passler kicked out of the Games because of a failed doping test.

Bissau, along with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) from the Middle East, are making their Winter Olympic debuts, while North Korea has not received an invitation. The exclusion is not due to political reasons or sanctions from the International Olympic Committee (IOC),