American superstar snowboarder and defending Olympic gold medallist Shaun White is a confirmed competitor for this weekend’s halfpipe event at Cypress Mountain.
A two-sport athlete, White was the first person to compete at both the Winter and Summer X Games in two different sports and is an icon for legions of snowboarders.
White was born with a heart defect known as Tetralogy of Fallot and needed two surgeries to help fix it. But a heart problem couldn’t slow him down…. More info