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Shaun White Crash: Snowboarding Star Crash at X Games: Video
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by Amy Judd | January 30, 2010 at 08:16 am
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Shaun White, The Flying Tomato, had a nasty crash during a practice run before the snowboarding star went on to win gold at the Winter X Games last night. He is fine however, and even though he took a nasty fall just 45 minutes before he was due to compete, he is still going to be in the Winter Olympics in just under two weeks time.
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Shaun White Crash at Winter X Games 2010 During Superpipe Practice
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Shaun White was practicing the double mctwist 1260, which is so difficult that he got his own private halfpipe to practice on in Colorado last year; he has to maintain about 18 feet of air and incorporate two end-over-end barrel roll flips with three and a half rotations. It was when he was practicing this that he didn't judge the landing properly and took a hit on the chin and his helmet came flying off.
He was frustrated but ok, and he went on to win gold with that move with a score of 95.33.
“That trick has been giving me a hard time. It felt good to get it down,” White said after the first run. He later said it was a “weird decision” to compete after the crash, but he knew that he had to.
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The X Games is Shaun's third win in a row in the superpipe. Iouri Podladtchikov from Switzerland took silver, and Kazuhiro Kokubo from Japan took bronze.
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at 19:07 on February 14th, 2010
Sean is HOT!
at 04:38 on February 24th, 2010
hey dumb ass, his name is spelled shaun
at 10:40 on February 27th, 2010
hi shaun i think you are awsome. im doing a report at school on you. and i hope some day to meet you!!!!!!!!!!!!
at 04:38 on March 1st, 2010
bitch! shaun dont even read this....no one reads this! text me 240-818-4391 im expecting your reply
at 05:45 on March 2nd, 2010
hey. text me again candace if you did. 240-818-4391