After a fall, Shaun White stomps his way into Olympic final
By EDDIE PELLS --
ZHANGJIAKOU, China (AP) — Shaun White let up just the tiniest bit as he jerked his body around for a trick — his signature trick, and a trick he’s landed without a hitch hundreds of times before.
The next thing he knew, he said, “I’m ... thinking, ‘Wow, I only have one more chance to get this done.’”
After an untimely fall in the first round of qualifying, the most-successful halfpipe rider in history turned the drama up to “11” on Wednesday, coming through huge in a land-or-go-home run that put him into the medal round at his fifth and final Olympics.
“It was not,” White said, “a position I like to be in a lot.”
White found himself there when he eased up ever so slightly and wound up off-balance for the landing of “The Tomahawk,”