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Olympic Snowboarding Halfpipe 2018: Live-Stream Schedule for Men's Final

The men's snowboarding halfpipe final is the Olympic equivalent of the Slam Dunk Contest.

During Monday's qualification runs, Shaun White of the United States, Australia's Scotty James and Japan's Ayumu Hirano set the stage for a thrilling final on Tuesday by one-upping each other with high-level tricks in each of their two runs.

White, who is a two-time Olympic champion in the halfpipe, produced the final mic drop of qualifying, as his second run produced a score of 98.50.

NBC Olympics gave us a look at the run by White on Twitter:

Although the American sits atop the halfpipe throne for now, Hirano and James are expected to break out every possible move in their bag of tricks to stop him from earning his third gold.