Shaun White completed his legendary snowboarding career on his own terms, flying down the halfpipe at the Beijing Olympics with the flair that’s been his trademark.
But his final event did not result in his fourth gold medal. White wiped out in his final run Friday and finished fourth in the men’s halfpipe.
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“It would have been nice to just cruise in and have a great, easy first run. But I had to fight for it,” White said after qualifying seventh earlier this week. “I had to work for it. That’s been this entire season, me just grinding it out, working for it.”
Another of Team USA’s biggest stars, Alpine skier Mikaela Shiffrin, returned to action after DNFs in back-to-back technical races for the first time since 2011. Shiffrin had a clean run in the women’s super-G — it was her first-ever appearance in the event in the Olympics — but she finished out of medal contention.
In women’s hockey, Team USA advanced to the semifinals after defeating the Czech Republic. They will play the winner of the Finland-Japan game.
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