Shaun White takes Gold in the Superpipe X games

26th January 2009

Shaun did it the hard way, though.. he fell on his first two runs, so had it all to do on the third.

White said afterwards "I didn't think I needed three runs to get it done. I knew I had the run in me; I just had to put it down. I can't believe I won it again, back-to-back gold medals are amazing."

Poor old Kevin Pearce could just sit and watch, "It was tough having to sit at the bottom of the mountain and watch Shaun take the final run, I know he always throws it down in the end.  It is not a position I want to be in ever again."
 
X Games men's superpipe final results:

Shaun White takes Gold in the Superpipe X games

1. Shaun White  91.66
2. Kevin Pearce  90.66
3. Antti Autti      87.33

The Snowboard SuperPipe is 500-foot long, 22-foot deep and "U-shaped". Measuring 60-feet from lip-to-lip with a pitch of 18 degrees.

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