Although the history of skiing is very long, there is still a big gap compared with sports with large audiences such as basketball and football in terms of the influence of the event.
But that doesn't stop skiing from having an absolute star like Jordan and Pele, whose name is Sean White.
Sean White, considered a dual combination of talent and hard work, perfect athlete attributes, is the snowboarder who has won the most Olympic gold medals and winter X-Games gold medals in history. Like another great sports star, Kobe Bryant, he has an extremely strong competitive spirit, which is why he can perform the most perfect performance under pressure again and again.
Today, we will take stock of the "snowboard god" Sean White's 6 crazy performances in his career.
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No.6 Flying tomatoes
Winner of the U Pool at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin
At the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, the U.S. men's snowboard U-pool team won the top three olympic spots, and the most dominant performance also made Turin in 2006 highly expected by the Americans. Shaun White, a 19-year-old red-haired teenager at the time, was already the absolute king of that season.
But in the Olympic preliminaries, Sean White nearly suffered a sudden death. The rule at the time was that if a player reached the top six in the first round, they could advance directly to the final. Sean White, on the other hand, finished 7th with just 37.7 points in the first round. This means he must make zero turnovers in Round 2 or he will lose his qualification for the final.
"More than the sky and his hair, is his heart", this sentence was the media's evaluation of Sean's performance after the game. In the second round of the preliminaries, he scored the highest score in the preliminary round of 45.3 points, and went further in the final, showing back-to-back 1080 and back-to-back 900, with 46.8 points, winning the Olympic championship for the first time. "Flying Tomatoes" has since become famous.
NO.5 Tony Hawk's mantle
2011 Summer X-Games Skateboard Vert Project Champion
Sean White met Skateboarding Godfather Tony Hawk at the age of 9 and became a professional skateboarder at the age of 17. He is the first athlete in history to compete in both the Summer X-Games and Winter X-Games events, and has won gold medals in both events.
In the summer of 2011 in the X-Games Vert event (similar to a U-shaped pool), Sean White came on as the penultimate in the final round, when he trailed the Canadian legend and seven-time X-games champion Pierre Luc Gagnon.
It was another desperate moment, and Sean White's big heart was once again full of power, and the magic of the operation made the commentary unbelievable, and he is still the only skateboarder to complete the HEEL FLIP BODY VARIAL FS 540, which is recognized as the best round of performance of all skateboarding televised.
Luc Gagnon also seemed to be blown away by Sean White's amazing performance, which failed in his first move and gave the performance a happy ending.
NO.4 “Tomahawk”
2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics U Pool Champion
Compared to the thrill of the first Olympic experience, Sean White's performance at the Vancouver Winter Olympics can only be described as dominance, and in the first round of the final, which has been secured, Sean is very excited to show off the first Double McTwist 1260 in the history of skiing at the winning run in the second round, also known as "Tomahawk", which has become the most representative action of Sean White's career.
With this difficult move, Sean White also scored a record high of 48.4 points under the 50-point rule, becoming the first player to defend the Olympic U-pool title on snowboard.
NO.3 Perfect 100
2012 X-Games U Pool Champion
Aspen, no doubt the blessed land of Sean White, once won 18 U-pool medals here, including 13. But if the title that impressed him the most was undoubtedly the 2012 U-Pool champion, because he won the first perfect score in the history of the veneer U-pool here – 100 points.
In this action, there is tomahawk, who won him the championship in 2010, and the first Frontside Double Cork 1260 in history, which is very smooth and flawless (if you have to pick a fault, it is probably his hot-eyed snow pants, presumably picked from his mother's old snow pants).
NO.2 PUBG 100 points
2018 U.S. Grand Prix U-Pool Champion
In 2014, Sean White went through his first failed Olympic journey and after a brief 1-season break, he decided to make a comeback again. But the rapid improvement of players such as Scotty James and Ayumu Hirano posed a huge challenge for Sean White at the time. He had to take the risk of practicing more difficult moves.
While training in New Zealand in 2017, Sean White suffered a facial injury and was stitched with 62 stitches. After a quick comeback, his competitive state is not ideal, and he is getting closer and closer to the Olympic Games, and he needs to block the voice of others' doubts with a championship as soon as possible.
In 2018, back in Aspen, Sean White lost the first two rounds of the tournament and finished at the bottom. Only one chance, and his big heart, began to unleash his maximum potential: frontside double cork 1440, cab double cork 1080, frontside 540, double McTwist 1260 and frontside double cork 1260, both in terms of difficulty and quality of movement.
The second perfect score of his career, the Olympic promotion was successful. He said after the game: "After the first two defeats, I was wondering if I wanted to be more conservative, but when I stood in front of the departure goal, I felt like I should leave the damn last place behind. Luckily, I persevered and did well. ”
NO.1 Return of the King
Winner of the U Pool at the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics
On Valentine's Day 2018, the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics snowboard U pool competition was held in Phoenix Snow Park. Hirano, Scotty James and Sean White are all strong contenders for the gold medal. That's never happened in Sean White's career — he's not the only one to be favored as a champion.
When Japan's Hirano Fumiyuki finished 1260+1440 in the second round, for Sean White, he had only one chance to complete the rebound, that is, to choose the back-to-back 1440 that he had never completed in the game before, which had made him suffer a serious injury during practice, but now he needed to fight for the championship.
At this point, the gales also began to disrupt the performance of the live players, and Sean White failed to try in the second round, leaving only one challenge opportunity. At this time, he turned on the buff of "Mr. Big Scene" again, back-to-back 1440, the whole stadium boiled, 97.75 points, and won the Olympic championship.
King Sean White returned, and seeing his performance, everyone had to admit that he was the only master of the sport.
For more than a decade, the level of U-Pool competition has been rising (from 1080 to 1440), but Sean White has never withdrawn from the ranks of the world's top competition, and this evergreen competitive ability is based on his strict requirements for himself day after day.
Sean White's ambitions don't stop at skiing, he is the guitarist of rock band Bad Things, acting as a lead agent to bring the famous ski event Air + Style from Innsbruck in Europe to Los Angeles in the United States and Beijing in China.
On the morning of November 15, the press conference of the 2018 Boiling Snow Beijing International Snow Federation Snowboard Jumping World Cup was held at the National Stadium (Bird's Nest), announcing that the event would be officially held at the National Stadium (Bird's Nest) from November 23 to 24. Since last year, the tournament has become FIS's World Cup points race, attracting world-class snowboard Big Air players including Anna Gasser, Mark McMorris and others this year.
Representatives of luckin coffee, 5100 mineral water, Dingo tree red wine and Hongxing Erke, which cooperated with the event, also attended the press conference.
(The video footage of this article originated from youtube and was integrated by skiers)