Heading into the Skateboarding Vert at X Games 16 all the pre-event hype was focused on Shaun White’s long-awaited return to the skateboard halfpipe. The golden boy of the Vancouver games was hoping to come back and put on a show…which he did. But White was outdone by skateboarding’s most dominant vert rider today, Pierre Luc-Gagnon, aka PLG, who took home two gold medals from the Staples Center Friday night: Skateboard Vert and Best Trick.
All the while, the Canadian did all he could to emerge from White’s giant X Games shadow. There, however, he didn’t succeed  … Details
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