Who Is Shaun White
Written by Kurt Naulaerts on November 24, 2009 – 5:11 pm -How closely do you watch the world of snowboarding? How closely do you watch the Olympics? If the answer to either of those questions is “closely”, then you probably know the name Shaun White. After all, he was only the United States gold medalist for the Men’s Half-pipe in 2006! It’d be pretty hard to miss that if you closely followed either the world of snowboarding, or the Olympics!
Shaun White was born September 3,’86, in San Diego California. He lived there for most of his life, although he now lives and works out of Carlsbad, California. His early life was fraught with hardship, as he was born with a congenital heart defect known as tetralogy of Fallot. Lucky for him, they caught it at an early age, and he had two cardiac surgeries before the age of five. Tetralogy of Fallot leaves a sixty percent survival rate if not caught by the age of four, so had they not caught it, it’s possible we wouldn’t be able to discuss Shaun White today. But they did, and he went on to become one of the most well known names in snowboarding.
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