Just in case you thought that this snowboarding lark was easy…Shaun White gives us another reminder that even the best can get it wrong. He caught his head on the lip of the pipe while attempting a double mctwist 1260, the trick he created in his private halfpipe last year. The force of the fall sent Shaun’s helmet flying as he collided with the top of the 22 foot pipe. All this on a practice run, 45 minutes before the final was due to start. Incidently, this is the same trick that Kevin Pierce got wrong in December, and sadly he is still in a critical condition in hospital.
After being checked over by the medics, Shaun was ready to rock once more, and boy did he rock, with a ridiculous 23 foot method air, followed by back-to-back doublecork 1080s, a 540, and finishing with the trick that floored him earlier, the double mctwist 1260. He scored 95.33 to add another gold medal to his collection.
The fall isn’t until the second half of the video, so enjoy the first part, and get worrying for Shauny after that. Again, like the girls vids, the production on this kinda sucks, sorry, it wasn’t monkipoo in charge!
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