It’s Valentine’s Day, and I’m in love.
Last night Shaun White won his third Olympic gold medal in dramatic fashion, landing trick combinations he had never before done in competition in order to beat Ayumu Hirano on the last run of the day. It was an intense competition and a dramatic comeback for the sport’s greatest athlete four years after failing to medal in Sochi and four months after getting 64 stitches in his face from an accident in New Zealand.
White won the competition with a run that included back-to-back 1440s and back-to-back 1260s.