shaun white X Games

shaun white X Games, Another Winter X Games, another gold medal for Shaun White. Easily outperforming the competition, White pulled a 1260 in his final run yesterday to take the Men's Snowboard Superpipe gold.
"The big thing I remember was doing the backside (900), and I landed and I'm going at that wall and I just wanted to spin as hard as I could," White said of his big trick. "Riding away from that was the best feeling ever," White added

This is White's third gold medal in the Superpipe, 7th gold overall, and 14th ESPN X Games medal. He wasn't the only one to win his 7th gold at the X Games, though. Tanner Hall took his 7th gold in the Ski Superpipe Finals on Thursday, setting the record until White tied it on Sunday.So the rumours started to filter through yesterday avo …but the legend that is Shaun White confirmed today that he will be bringing his all-American awesomeness to this year’s European X Games in Tignes!

The two-time Olympic gold medalist, internationally famed for his charisma as much as his ability to shred like an absolute demon will be entering both the half pipe AND slopestyle event at the upcoming Games in Tignes, France. Particularly exciting considering he was forced to pull out of the X Games slopestyle in Aspen earlier this season and then went on to nail the first ever perfect score in X Games halpipe history!!! (Check his insane 100 pointer HERE).

Of course the news is expected to draw even bigger crowds and attention to what is already regarded as one of the biggest stages of the winter action sports circuit. One thing is certain; Europe’s where it’s AT!In the spring of 2009, Red Bull, one of White's principal sponsors, built him a private halfpipe complete with foam pit at Silverton Mountain in southwestern Colorado. Dubbed Project X, the pipe was built on the backside of a mountain in an inconspicuous avalanche chute, reachable only by helicopter and snowmobile. There, it took White all of three days to land the trick that would come to dominate snowboard chatter over the summer and beyond - the double-cork. The game-changing maneuver involves two off-axis rotations, or diagonal flips. And at the season's opening World Cup event in New Zealand in August, White debuted back-to-back double-cork spins en route to victory. The first of those double-corks was a cab 1080 stalefish, meaning that while White was twice flipping diagonally, he was also executing three full spins and grabbing the board at his back heel edge.
From his relatively modest beginning, White has ascended to a staggering level of success. He reportedly earns more than $9 million annually, primarily from endorsement deals with Burton, Hewlett-Packard, Oakley, Red Bull, and Target, putting him second behind skateboarding legend Tony Hawk in Forbes' 2008 list of the highest-paid action sports stars. White also owns a Lamborghini and three homes, including one on the beach in Carlsbad, Calif. And like the aforementioned Hawk, White reached a notable digital milestone in November 2008 when he officially became the title character in his own video game, Shaun White Snowboarding. White was born with a heart defect called Tetralogy of Fallot, which his website (www.shaunwhite.com) describes as "a series of heart malformations." The heart defect required two major surgeries at a young age.
He was also severely bow-legged early in his childhood and had to wear corrective leg braces at night. However, neither malady stopped White from trying snowboarding at age six (with the assistance of his father, Roger). The entire White family has since taken up snowboarding, with Cathy (his mother) being the last to learn.Entering the 2006 Torino Games, White was widely considered the favorite to take Olympic gold in men's halfpipe. However, the Carlsbad, Calif., native got an early scare when a mistake on his first qualifying run left him with just 37.7 points, facing a do-or-die scenario to earn a spot in the final with his second qualifying run. White ended up qualifying with ease on that second run, and in the final, he did not disappoint, claiming the Olympic title with a dominant performance. Riding to AC/DC's Back in Black, the then-19-year-old racked up 46.8 points in the first run of the final round, a score that no other competitor would surpass. During his interview with NBC after the victory, White broke down,

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