{"id":162804,"date":"2022-06-05T19:17:39","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T02:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=162804"},"modified":"2022-06-05T19:17:39","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T02:17:39","slug":"was-shaun-white-a-better-snowboarder-or-skateboarder-breaking-down-his-x-games-medals-tally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=162804","title":{"rendered":"Was Shaun White a Better Snowboarder or Skateboarder: Breaking Down His X-Games Medals Tally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The icon Shaun White is a legendary snowboarder. Retiring after a successful career at the 2022 Beijing Olympics, he won three Olympic gold medals in the half-pipe competition. Time after time, he kept coming back to win different events, putting other competitors to shame. Thus, he was the benchmark for most snowboarders. Similarly, he was a brilliant skateboarder as well.<\/p>\n<p>Often compared to the influential Tony Hawk, White is the first person to win a medal in both the Winter and Summer X-Games. As someone well versed in both sports, was he a better snowboarder or a skateboarder?\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.essentiallysports.com\/us-sports-news-snowboarding-news-tony-hawk-was-shaun-white-a-better-snowboarder-or-skateboarder-breaking-down-his-x-games-medals-tally\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The icon Shaun White is a legendary snowboarder. Retiring after a successful career at the 2022 Beijing Olympics, he won three Olympic gold medals in the half-pipe competition. Time after time, he kept coming back to win different events, putting other competitors to shame. Thus, he was the benchmark for most snowboarders. Similarly, he was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,59,4,52,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-sports","category-skateboard-mountain-board","category-snow","category-snowboard","category-video-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=162804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162805,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162804\/revisions\/162805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}