Last February, Shaun White of the United States dazzled the world in Vancouver when he won the snowboard halfpipe gold medal for his second consecutive Winter Games. The free-spirited 24-year-old redhead from San Diego who is often called “The Flying Tomato,” is also a multiple X Games gold medalist in both snowboarding and skateboarding. In 2009, White was named by Forbes magazine as one of the top 10 highest paid ($9 million) athletes in the action sports industry.
In early December, White was in Japan to attend an event hosted by U.S. snowboard maker Burton Snowboards. Shaun took time from his busy schedule to talk to The Asahi Shimbun …Â More
If you believed the golden age of steam was in the dim and distant past, think again.
This streamlined British supercar that went on a test run at a military airstrip near Chichester last week is about to attempt to smash one of the world’s most enduring records, the highest speed for a steam-driven car.
Known as the ‘World’s Fastest Kettle’, the car is being shipped to America where driver Charles Burnett III will make the record attempt across a dried-up lake bed in the Mojave Desert of Southern California in early June.
The steam-car record of 127.659mph was set by American Fred Marriott in 1906 in a machine called the Stanley Steamer.
He tried to break his record a year later but the car  … Pictures & More