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Tell me everything you know about Shaun White...................?

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whoever has the most CORRRECT info about my hero <3 get the 10 points :D

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  1. Shaun Roger White (born September 3, 1986 in Carlsbad, California) is an American athlete. He has been a notable competitor in professional snowboarding since he was fourteen years old, but is also known for his skateboarding. White was born with Tetralogy of Fallot, a congenital heart defect for which he endured two open-heart operations before his first birthday.

    hehe dont pick me. i copied it from wikipedia.

    White stands 5&#039; 8.5&quot; (1.73 m) tall. He rides regular stance, twelve and negative three degrees on his board. He is known for his shock of red hair, for which he has become known as &quot;The Flying Tomato.&quot; Addressing his perception of the nickname, Rolling Stone magazine wrote, &quot;he used to embrace it, even wearing headbands with a flying-tomato logo, but he has grown tired of it.


  2. Shaun Roger White (born September 3, 1986 in Carlsbad, California) is an American athlete. He has been a notable competitor in professional snowboarding since he was fourteen years old, but is also known for his skateboarding. White was born with Tetralogy of Fallot, a congenital heart defect for which he endured two open-heart operations before his first birthday.

    White stands 5&#039; 8.5&quot; (1.73 m) tall. He rides regular stance, twelve and negative three degrees on his board.[1] He is known for his shock of red hair, for which he has become known as &quot;The Flying Tomato.&quot; Addressing his perception of the nickname, Rolling Stone magazine wrote, &quot;he used to embrace it, even wearing headbands with a flying-tomato logo, but he has grown tired of it.&quot;[2]

    Contents [hide]

    1 Snowboarding career

    2 Achievements, recognition and popular culture

    3 Notes

    4 External links



    [edit] Snowboarding career

    Shaun spent his formative years riding Snow Summit and Bear Mountain, at Big Bear a small ski resort found in the BALLE San Bernardino Mountains of Southern California. Today, his sponsors include Burton, as well as Oakley, Birdhouse Skateboards, Park City Resort, Target, Red Bull, Adio, and HP; White also has his own character on the games Shaun Palmer&#039;s Pro Snowboarder. White has been a participant in the Winter X Games, where he has medaled every year since 2002. Including all winter X Games competitions through 2008, his medal count stands at 14 (9 gold, 3 silver, 2 bronze), including the first four-peat winner by a male athlete in one discipline, the snowboard slopestyle. White&#039;s quest for a five-peat Gold in 2007 was spoiled by Andreas Wiig (Gold) and Jussi Oksanen (Silver), with White taking the bronze. At the conclusion of the 2008 Winter X Games, White stands as one of only two athletes who have won a leading seven gold medals in their total Winter X competitive history. He has also won the Air &amp; Style Contest in 2003 and 2004.

    White also earned a gold medal in the men&#039;s halfpipe while representing the United States at the 2006 Winter Olympics. He scored a 46.8 out of 50 on his first run. The score was not beaten by any other boarder in the first or second run, ensuring him the gold before his final run.

    Executing a near-flawless second run, Shaun White captured his third consecutive halfpipe title at the 2008 U.S. Open Snowboarding Championships to go along with his third US Open slopestyle competition . This follows White&#039;s dramatic win at the 25th (2007) Burton US Open, where he placed third in slopestlyle and first in the halfpipe. White was defending champion of the Open, as he had overcome several years of injuries and other problems to finally win the event in 2006 for the first time. At the 2007 Open, White was also crowned the first &quot;Male Burton Global Open Champion&quot;. His take for the event was $100,000 (Global Open Champ), $20,000 (1st Place Halfpipe), $5,000 (3rd Place Slopestyle), and a new Volvo.

    [edit] Achievements, recognition and popular culture

    Shaun White won the 2008 Laureus World Sports Award for the best Action Sportsperson of the Year.

    White remains the only skater to land the bodyvarial frontside 540.[3]

    He was the first to land a Cab 7 Melon Grab in vert skateboarding.[4]

    He was named the Chairman of the Board on the Spike TV Guys&#039; Choice Awards on June 13, 2007.[5]

    White starred in the 2005 snowboarding documentary First Descent.

    The 2008 video game Shaun White Snowboarding is named after him.

  3. Just to satisfy your curiosity and not for ten points:

    Shaun Roger White, 5&quot;.8.5&quot;,  born on set 3, 1986, in California, being called The flying Tomato due to his red hair.

  4. I know, that everyone thinks hes the best, and yeah halfpipe is hard, and a switch 1080 is hard in a halfpipe, but i also know that , that is all he does, all day everyday, one trick line practicing the same thign. hes not a street rider, that when you do a trick its different on each rail every time.

    I also know hes a total sell out, what kind of snowboarder, gets their own clothing line at TARGET? a place that has nothign to do with snowboarding AT ALL.

    Hes rediculous.

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