Nicknamed 'The Flying Tomato,' Shaun White is back at the Winter Olympics with hopes of a fourth gold medal Beijing2022
Shaun White was the first global snowboarding superstar and now he is back at the Winter Olympics chasing a fourth gold medal.
His profile was so big that he even bumped Jimi Hendrix off the cover of Rolling Stone magazine shortly after his win.White suffers from a heart condition called Tetralogy of Fallot – which is made up of four congential heart defects – and has undergone three separate operations, as an infant, to repair the problem.GettySnowboarding was not the only sport he excelled at as he actually turned professional as a skateboarder when he was 16, having befriended Tony Hawk when he was nine.
But it was clear snowboarding came naturally to him and by the age of seven he received his first sponsorship.
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