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The howling winds continued to batter the fifty-six man slalom fleet for the second day running, testing the sailors to the edge of their ability as they battled their way through each race. The insane conditions allowed the race crew to kick off the action from 10:30am and to fly through three more eliminations in quick succession.
With thirty-five knots of wind howling across the race course, race director Juan Antonio Aragon decided to mix things up a little for the sailors. The race crew quickly re-aligned the buoys so that the course opened up with … More
Stressed out, not skating the way he wanted, and with one run left and a gold medal on the line, Shaun White thought of his brother’s recent advice:
“You just have to stop thinking and do what you used to do.”
In the skateboard vert final Saturday at the X Games in Los Angeles, with the packed Nokia Theatre crowd cheering him on, White did exactly that  … More