{"id":28130,"date":"2012-01-30T09:31:35","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T17:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=28130"},"modified":"2012-01-30T09:48:52","modified_gmt":"2012-01-30T17:48:52","slug":"shaun-whites-100-proof-x-games-halfpipe-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=28130","title":{"rendered":"Shaun White&#8217;s 100 Proof X Games Halfpipe Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"259\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NfKmaf1rrAs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Real and true and honest moments are so rare in corporate snowboard sport that when they occur it drops the bottom half of our brains out into our laps and leaves us dumbfounded and quivering. That what happened last night (January 29, 2012) when two-time Olympic Gold Medalist, five-time <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/action\/xgames\/winter\/2012\/\" target=\"_blank\">Winter X Games Gold<\/a><\/strong> medalist, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.target.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Target<\/a><\/strong> Clothing Designer, video game character, and<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/images.businessweek.com\/slideshows\/20120123\/power-100-2012\/slides\/9\" target=\"_blank\"> 2012 Businessweek Power 100 number 8<\/a><\/strong> <strong>Shaun White<\/strong> dropped in on his third and final run in the Winter X Games Halfpipe Finals. <\/p>\n<p>White had already won the gold medal with a score of 94 points, edging second place finisher <strong>Iouri Podladtchikov<\/strong> by one point. White was perfectly set up to take a victory lap. He could have just made a four hit run of 23 foot straight airs and the gold would still have been his. But Shaun had some unfinished business. In his second run, White had gone down on his last hit. It was the unveiling of his frontside double-cork 1260 and he didn&#8217;t land it. We could tell the moment he dropped in on his final run that he was going to try it again.<\/p>\n<p>As we all know, Shaun landed the back-to-back backside double cork 1260 to frontside double cork 1260 on his last two hits and was awarded the first perfect 100 point score in X Games history. And while it seems an almost <em>too<\/em> perfectly scripted finish for a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/corporate.disney.go.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Walt Disney Company<\/a><\/strong> owned made-for-TV entrainment event property, the truth is Shaun White&#8217;s run was one of those real, true, honest moments in snowboarding were an athlete&#8217;s performance rises above all the bullshit that surrounds the event, the marketing, and the hype and stands alone on its own screaming for everyone to hear: this is snowboarding.<\/p>\n<p>Shaun White seemed as stoked as we all were. &#8220;It&#8217;s unreal. I&#8217;ve been wanting that 100 forever,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Thank you everyone here tonight. This is unreal. . .  I came here on a mission. I couldn&#8217;t compete in slopestyle. I was sitting around icing my ankle. I took out a little of the anger that I couldn&#8217;t compete in slope on the pipe tonight. I was upset with my first front double 12 and wanted to get it.<\/p>\n<p>For one of the first times in X Games television show history we were glad we were somewhere with cable and able to watch, because missing this was missing one of those epic moments. <\/p>\n<p>Follow the jump for the full results.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Men&#8217;s Snowboard SuperPipe Final Results<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>RANK\tNAME\tRUN 1\tRUN 2\tRUN 3\tBEST<br \/>\n1 Shaun White  \t94.00\t71.33\t100.00\t100.00<br \/>\n2 Iouri Podladtchikov  \t90.00\t92.00\t93.00\t93.00<br \/>\n3 Ryo Aono \t73.33\t68.66\t86.00\t86.00<br \/>\n4 Christian Haller\t33.33\t83.00\t13.33\t83.00<br \/>\n5 Matt Ladley\t78.66\t29.66\t41.33\t78.66<br \/>\n6 Louie Vito\t70.00\t9.33\t18.66\t70.00<br \/>\n7 Greg Bretz\t60.00\t10.00\t7.33\t60.00<br \/>\n8 Luke Mitrani\t37.00\t32.00\t37.66\t37.66<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real and true and honest moments are so rare in corporate snowboard sport that when they occur it drops the bottom half of our brains out into our laps and leaves us dumbfounded and quivering. That what happened last night (January 29, 2012) when two-time Olympic Gold Medalist, five-time Winter X Games Gold medalist, Target [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28130"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28130"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28137,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28130\/revisions\/28137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}