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02-05-2022, 06:16 PM
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Shaun White
On Tuesday, at the improbable age of 35, Shaun White will try to qualify for the half pipe final in his fifth and final Winter Olympics. His come from behind final run to take gold in 2018 is IMO one of the epic individual moments in sports.
https://www.nbcolympics.com/videos/p...-gold-last-run https://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...dal/336185002/
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02-05-2022, 07:59 PM
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I remember watching him in his early Olympics, when he was literally 150% better than anyone else out there, and thinking "I'm watching the Babe Ruth fo this sport. A short, skinny, red headed Babe Ruth."
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02-05-2022, 08:17 PM
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02-05-2022, 09:48 PM
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I remember watching the ad he did for American Express around the time of the 2006 Olympics, and thinking they had to have staged some of the stunts he did. Then I watched his highlights and realized those were for real.
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02-05-2022, 10:15 PM
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02-06-2022, 10:23 AM
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It must have been his second Olympics...the rest of the world had caught up where they were now on the same planet as him (as opposed to the same solar system the first go-around).
Still, he came to the final run and basically all he had to do was slide down the middle of the pipe and not fall and he'd win gold again. The mic caught up part of a conversation with his coach that was something like "What do I do?" and the coach said "Go for it...and when you get to the last part, make sure you f***ing nail it!". He nodded, went out, did his thing, and to end his run did something nobody had seen before, and he f***ing nailed it. Yup....still Babe Ruth.
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