Shaun White Goes Down Hill
Shaun White, a US professional snowboarder and a two-time Olympic gold medalist has left many people in shock with his performance this Tuesday, February 12, 2014. This year's Winter Olympics are taking place in Sochi Russia where the Olympians are staying in very unsanitary and incomplete conditions. Aside from that, snowboarding was first included in the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan. White was originally supposed to compete in two snowboarding events this year, the slope-style and the half-pipe where he only ended up competing in the half-pipe. White ended up dropping out of the slope-style event the day before it was supposed to take place because it was said to be very dangerous. The slope-style is an event for free-styling where the half-pipe is a smooth surface with curved edges to perform stunts. Everyone was expecting White to do amazing just like every other year, right? Then what was it that changed everything?
Ayumu Hirano a 15 year old from Japan was called to be Shaun's biggest threat in the half-pipe this year. Ayumu ended up winning the silver. Before White's final run, he seemed to be a little confident while holding the highest score of the day with 95.75. He ended up not doing well on Run 1 in the finals where he fell twice, once almost breaking his board in half in the finals scoring a 35.00 even. As Shaun White gets ready to perform in his second run in the half-pipe event, he is looking a little tense as he has to beat who is currently in first place, Iouri Podladtchikov. Iouri is a Russian snowboarder who was holding the top score of 94.75. As Shaun White goes up for his final run he didn't fall at all, but had a couple bobbles which could have gotten him off track a little. This caused him to end with a score of 90.25 in the finals and land in 4th place. He was hoping to win two gold medals before he dropped out of the slope-style, but this year he sadly left with zero. According to ESPN, Shaun Claims that "Tonight was just one of those nights."
In the live event on Tuesday, February 12, 2014 Shaun White obviously did not perform as well as everyone had been expecting him to. According to USA Today, Danny Davis, another US rider who placed tenth place in the half pipe event said, "I think it's great the American public and the world now knows that there are other snowboarders besides Shaun White." "Shaun's, don't get me wrong, one of the most talented, one of the best riders there are, but there are guys who are just as good if not better and today Iouri was the best rider." This was evidently true, but according to ESPN many people are still left wondering why this happened. There is really no excuse. As White said "Tonight was just one of those nights." What may also be very shocking to viewers is the fact that according to "Business Insider" Cork Gaines, Shaun White is not very well liked among other snowboarders. "Davis said it may be jealousy for some riders. But more importantly, he pointed out what has long been known about White, that he is just not part of the snowboarding social network." Also, everyone thinks that White doesn't snowboard just out of appreciation of the sport, but to win. "But White's exclusion is less about feeling superior and more about just being insanely competitive." Overall, the lesson learned is you can't always be the best in everything you do and that was clear in this year's Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia.
Ayumu Hirano a 15 year old from Japan was called to be Shaun's biggest threat in the half-pipe this year. Ayumu ended up winning the silver. Before White's final run, he seemed to be a little confident while holding the highest score of the day with 95.75. He ended up not doing well on Run 1 in the finals where he fell twice, once almost breaking his board in half in the finals scoring a 35.00 even. As Shaun White gets ready to perform in his second run in the half-pipe event, he is looking a little tense as he has to beat who is currently in first place, Iouri Podladtchikov. Iouri is a Russian snowboarder who was holding the top score of 94.75. As Shaun White goes up for his final run he didn't fall at all, but had a couple bobbles which could have gotten him off track a little. This caused him to end with a score of 90.25 in the finals and land in 4th place. He was hoping to win two gold medals before he dropped out of the slope-style, but this year he sadly left with zero. According to ESPN, Shaun Claims that "Tonight was just one of those nights."
In the live event on Tuesday, February 12, 2014 Shaun White obviously did not perform as well as everyone had been expecting him to. According to USA Today, Danny Davis, another US rider who placed tenth place in the half pipe event said, "I think it's great the American public and the world now knows that there are other snowboarders besides Shaun White." "Shaun's, don't get me wrong, one of the most talented, one of the best riders there are, but there are guys who are just as good if not better and today Iouri was the best rider." This was evidently true, but according to ESPN many people are still left wondering why this happened. There is really no excuse. As White said "Tonight was just one of those nights." What may also be very shocking to viewers is the fact that according to "Business Insider" Cork Gaines, Shaun White is not very well liked among other snowboarders. "Davis said it may be jealousy for some riders. But more importantly, he pointed out what has long been known about White, that he is just not part of the snowboarding social network." Also, everyone thinks that White doesn't snowboard just out of appreciation of the sport, but to win. "But White's exclusion is less about feeling superior and more about just being insanely competitive." Overall, the lesson learned is you can't always be the best in everything you do and that was clear in this year's Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia.
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