Shaun White covered his nose and mouth with a blood-soaked white towel — with more blotches of blood scattered in the snow in front of him — after one of the scariest crashes of his life.
Video of the October halfpipe fall — which led to 62 face stitches — was published Wednesday.
White’s snowboard hit the top of a New Zealand halfpipe in training. It folded, and the side of his head landed on the pipe’s lip, whipping off as he crumbled, head first, into the flat bottom.
“I just like scared myself,” White said later from his hospital room.