Shaun White 2014 Winter Olympics

Shaun white having won two consecutive gold medals in the halfpipe is possibly the best known member of the united states olympic team. The 27 year old american who opted out of the olympic slopestyle debut and put all his chips in the halfpipe where he hoped to win a third straight gold got knocked off by iouri podladtchikov. When he drops into the halfpipe he does it at full speed.

It was not the american shaun white snowboarding icon and double olympic champion who seized his moment in the sochi halfpipe.

Shaun white 2014 winter olympics. Five of those came in slopestyle but he took a break from that discipline as he focused more on the halfpipe for. Sochi 2014 winter olympics snowboarding mens half pipe finals 2nd run. Iouri podladtchikov and shaun white. English captions available podladtchikov performs his epic switch frontside.

After a series of runs marked by uncharacteristic falls and slips american snowboarder shaun white finished in fourth place in the mens halfpipe competition in sochi on tuesday afternoon. Instead it was a russian born swiss national who twisted turned and. White also has 13 golds in snowboardings biggest annual event the winter x games.