Shaun White‘s return to the Winter X Video games ended before he would per chance well well secure his first competition bustle in close to three years.
White tweaked one of his knees in apply within the week leading up to Sunday evening’s snowboard halfpipe tournament in Aspen, Colo., per his social media.
“After talking with the clinical group, made up our minds that pushing thru would simplest create issues worse,” used to be posted on White’s Instagram about four hours before the contest. “It’s a complex resolution to create, but moral own to present my knee a whereas to fetch better and I’ll be attend soon.”
White, 34, final competed in snowboarding on the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics, taking his third gold medal. He returned to riding after an aborted strive to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics in skateboarding.
“On every occasion it moral feels bask in a brand original plug at it,” White, who subsequent 12 months will doubtless be older than any man to compete in an Olympic snowboard halfpipe, mentioned in an X Video games video interview final week. “I don’t really, bask in, let off the gasoline. You would possibly per chance well well goal not glimpse me, but I’m smooth doing the entire issues that I own to.”
White’s anticipated return to X Video games, his first time on the splendid annual snowboard competition since 2017, used to be billed as a showdown with Australian Scotty James. James took bronze in PyeongChang and acquired three of the final four X Video games titles.
Earlier on the final day of competition Sunday, snowboarder Jamie Anderson earned her eighth X Video games title, but her first in principal air.
Anderson, the 2-time Olympic champion and 7-time X Video games champion in slopestyle, beat a principal air discipline that included every medalist from the final three X Video games, plus every 2018 Olympic medalist, led by Austrian Anna Gasser (who used to be seventh on Sunday).
Anderson, 30, is already basically the most inviting feminine snowboarder with more than one Olympic titles. She mentioned after winning Friday’s slopestyle crown that she thought this would per chance well be her final competitive season, but now doesn’t know when she can retire.
Anderson is one Winter X Video games medal insecure of the file 20 held by Canadian snowboarder Tag McMorris and two golds insecure of the female file held by American snowboarder Lindsey Jacobellis.
American men acquired snowboard slopestyle (Dusty Henricksen) and ski slopestyle (Slit Goepper).
Henricksen, a 17-12 months-frail X Video games rookie, became the first U.S. male snowboarder to lift an X Video games Aspen slopestyle since White in 2009. Beforehand, his splendid title used to be the 2020 Childhood Winter Olympics.
He beat a discipline that included Olympic champion Purple Gerard (seventh on Sunday). It lacked 5-time X Video games champ McMorris, who missed X Video games for the first time since his 2011 debut due to a sure coronavirus test.
Goepper, an Olympic silver and bronze medalist, earned his fourth X Video games ski slopestyle title and first since a 3-peat from 2013-15.
What’s subsequent for snowboarders and freeskiers is unclear. The biennial world championships situation for China in February were canceled, but would per chance well well be rescheduled.
The Burton U.S. Birth, customarily a season-ender in leisurely February or early March for snowboarders, used to be also canceled as a result of pandemic.
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