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It's too bad Shaun White was overshadowed by Michelle Kwan. I don't know much about these Olympics, but I doubt there's a more dominant athlete at these games. He's won every event he's entered this year, including sweeping the X Games.
He's also a great personality. He's goofy, but still sincere. The interview with him after he won and his family mobbed him was a classic. The way he was choking up and laughing about it without dismissing it was sweet.
White's comment about the Olympics being like the X Games times 10 was pretty funny. But the X Games is still a bigger deal to snowboarders than the Olympics--especially since the Olympics are so behind the times with their events. Slopstyle is the premiere event in snowboarding. It's way more interesting, creative, and prestigious among boarders than the half-pipe.
Instead of adding slopstyle, this year the Olympics adds boarder-cross, which the X Games dropped several years ago. White has won the last 3 X Games slopstyles, and 2 out of 3 half-pipes.
