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Shaun White tried to attempt the first ever 1080 in skateboarding, but never landed it.
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Shaun's favorite colors are red and green.
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Some of Shauns influences include his brother Jesse and the famous skateboarder Tony Hawk.
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Shaun's favorite book is Lord of the Flies.
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Shaun's favorite shows include Family Guy, Everybody Loves Raymond and Just Shoot Me.
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Shaun's least favorite food is french food.
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Shaun attempterd the 1080 in the 2005 and 2006 X-Games, making him the only skater to attempt the trick in competition,but has yet to land it.
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Shaun is good friends with Skateboarding Legend Tony Hawk. Tony has been working with Shaun to improve his snowboarding and skateboarding skills from the age of 9.
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Shaun won first place in the 2006 Dew Action Sports Tour's Right Guard Open in Skate Vert.
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Shaun's first pro competition win was in 2005 at the Panasonic Open of the Dew Action Sports Tour.
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Shaun remains the only skater to land the bodyvarial frontside 540.
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Shaun earned a gold medal in the men's halfpipe for the United States at the 2006 Winter Olympics, scoring a 46.8 out of 50 on his first run.
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Shaun took the Silver Medal for the Mens HalfPipe in 2002.
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Shaun took the Silver Medal for the Mens Slopestyle in snowboarding in 2002.
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Shaun took the Silver Medal for the Mens Vert skateboarding in 2005.
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Shaun is the first male athlete to have afour-peat in one discipline, slopestyle.
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Shaun took gold in the Halfpipe for the mens snowboarding 2003 and 2006.
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Shaun took gold in the Slopestyle for the mens snowboarding 2003 through 2006.
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Shaun's sponsors include Burton, Oakley, T-mobile, R.E.D., Volcom, Birdhouse Skateboards, Ricta, June Mountain, Target, Mountain Dew, Transworld Snowboarding, Adio, Sony PlayStation, and HP.
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Shaun began snowboarding at the age of 6.
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Shaun was born with a congenital heart defect known as tetralogy of Fallot.
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Shaun rides regular stance, twelve and negative three degrees on his snowboard.
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He has an older brother named Jesse and an older sister named Kari.
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He started skateboarding professionally at 16.
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He skiied originally, but switched to snowboarding because his big brother Jesse started, and Shaun, being the tag-along little brother, had to do the same.
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Shaun White won the Gold Metal in the 2006 Winter Olympics for the men's halfpipe.
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Shaun turned pro-snowboarder at the age of 13.