Shaun White

Latest Stories

FILE - Shaun White waves after competing in the men's halfpipe finals at the Winter Olympics, Feb. 11, 2022, in Zhangjiakou, China. White is starting a season-long halfpipe league that will offer $1.5 million in prizes in hopes of pulling together what has long been a spread-out, confusing action-sports calendar. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, File)

Shaun White starting new halfpipe league in hopes of increasing prizes, visibility for action sports

By Eddie Pells - Associated Press

FILE - Shaun White, of the United States, celebrates winning gold after his run during the men's halfpipe finals at Phoenix Snow Park at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, Feb. 14, 2018. The Beijing Olympics will be the fifth Olympics for the three-time gold medalist. And the last Olympics for the 35-year-old — get this — elder-statesman who is now more than double the age of some of the riders he goes against. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

One more Olympic ride: End means a new beginning for White

By Eddie Pells - Associated Press

Shaun White, of the United States, after his run in the snowboarding halfpipe finals, Sunday, Dec. 19, 2021, during the Dew Tour at Copper Mountain, Colo. (AP Photo/Hugh Carey)

White heads back to halfpipe for a contest in Switzerland

By Eddie Pells - Associated Press

Men's halfpipe gold medalist Shaun White, of the United States, bites his medal during the medals ceremony at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018. As Shaun White embarked this month on the quest to make his fifth Olympics, the world’s most famous halfpipe rider finds living a life full of calculated risks is still part of his DNA. It's a mindset that is less taken for granted these days in all-or-nothing sports like his than it was a mere 12 months ago. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File) **FILE**

Danger in his DNA: White weighs risks, rewards as he preps for fifth Olympics

By Eddie Pells - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 14, 2018, file photo, gold medal winner Shaun White celebrates after the men's halfpipe finals at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. With the mountains closed and the halfpipes shuttered during a pandemic that turned the world and its sports upside down, White put double-corks on hold and saved his most intense workouts for his mind. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File)

AP Interview: White streamlines life on road to ‘22 Olympics

By EDDIE PELLS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 14, 2018, file photo, Gold medal winner Shaun White, of the United States, celebrates after the men's halfpipe finals at Phoenix Snow Park at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. If the world sees Shaun White at an Olympics again, it will be in 2022, not later this year. The three-time snowboarding champion told The Associated Press that he is taking skateboarding off his plate and won’t try to qualify for that sport’s Olympic debut later this year in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

Snowbound: White says he’ll skip skateboard, stick to snow

By EDDIE PELLS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 14, 2018, file photo, gold medal winner Shaun White celebrates after the men's halfpipe finals at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Shaun White is pressing forward with plans to shoot for the Summer Olympics in skateboarding. White said Tuesday, July 23, 2019, on NBC’s “Today” show that he’ll compete at world championships in September “and see what happens” before deciding whether to try to earn a spot on the U.S. team for skateboarding’s Olympic debut next summer in Tokyo.(AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File)

Shaun White pushes forward on Olympic skateboarding track

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 28, 2018, file photo, Toby Miller reacts after Japanese rider Ayumu Hirano landed his run in the men's snowboard superpipe finals at the Winter X Games in Aspen, Colo. Teenage snowboarder Toby Miller is the hand-picked successor of the best around, Shaun White. Now, Miller's trying to apply lessons from the Olympic gold medalist to forge his own way through the halfpipe. He competes Friday, Feb. 8, 2019, in the halfpipe final at the world championships in Park City, Utah. (Anna Stonehouse/The Aspen Times via AP, File)

Teen snowboarder soaring under tutelage of Shaun White

By PAT GRAHAM - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 14, 2018, file photo, gold medal winner Shaun White celebrates after the men's halfpipe finals at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Three-time Olympic champion snowboarder Shaun White has apologized for a Halloween costume that drew criticism from the Special Olympics. White recently posted and then deleted an Instagram photo showing himself dressed as “Simple Jack,” a character with disabilities from the 2008 movie “Tropic Thunder.”(AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File)

Olympic champ Shaun White apologizes for Halloween costume

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Men's halfpipe gold medalist Shaun White, of the United States, speaks at a news conference at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) **FILE**

Hero, harasser or both? Shaun White’s newly complex legacy

By Errin Haines Whack - Associated Press

Shaun White, of the United States, celebrates winning the gold medal in the men's halfpipe finals at Phoenix Snow Park at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Shaun White, The Flying Tomato, has us joyfully sobbing with him

By Ralph Z. Hallow - The Washington Times

Men's halfpipe gold medalist Shaun White, of the United States, speaks at a news conference at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) **FILE**

Shaun White’s snowboarding gold overshadowed by harassment allegation

By Adam Zielonka - The Washington Times

Ayumu Hirano, of Japan, looks at his score during the men's halfpipe finals at Phoenix Snow Park at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Hirano, James just short in epic men’s halfpipe final

By WILL GRAVES - Associated Press

Shaun White, of the United States, jumps during the men's halfpipe finals at Phoenix Snow Park at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

AP PHOTOS: Shaun White soars to gold in men’s halfpipe

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Shaun White, of the United States, celebrates winning gold after the men's halfpipe finals at Phoenix Snow Park at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Shaun White refers to sexual misconduct lawsuit as ‘gossip’

By Jake Seiner - Associated Press

Shaun White, of the United States, finishes his run during the men's halfpipe qualifying at Phoenix Snow Park at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2018. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Air Show: White leads talented field into halfpipe final

By WILL GRAVES - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 11, 2018 file photo, Katie Couric poses in the press room at the 23rd annual Critics' Choice Awards in Santa Monica, Calif. Couric has apologized for comments that she made during NBC's coverage of the Olympics opening ceremony that the Dutch are so successful in speed skating because skates have been used as a form of transportation when canals freeze in the Netherlands. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)

The Latest: Shaun White’s Olympic gold a highlight of Day 5

Associated Press

Shaun White, of the United States, celebrates winning gold after his run during the men's halfpipe finals at Phoenix Snow Park at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

American Shaun White soars to 3rd Olympic halfpipe gold medal

Associated Press

Shaun White, of the United States, celebrates winning gold after his run during the men's halfpipe finals at Phoenix Snow Park at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Shaun White wins 3rd Olympic gold in contest for the ages

By EDDIE PELLS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 6, 2016, file photo, two-time Olympic snowboarder Shaun White trains at Canada Olympic Park in Calgary, Alberta. White says he is working on the tricks that Japan's Ayumu Hirano used to win the Winter X Games last month. Hirano became the first person to string together back-to-back 1440-degree jumps in what was widely regarded as the best show snowboarding has ever put on in a halfpipe. White says he’s working on the back-to-back 1440s, too, and insists the world hasn’t seen his best run yet. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press via AP, File)

Shaun White just fine with upping ante on Olympic halfpipe

By EDDIE PELLS - Associated Press