Holy Vancouver! It's The 2010 Winter Olympics Discussion Thread!

[allaboutthegames885]

Ok, so I haven't managed to grab a lot of attention! I'll have to choose a subtopic that will grab people's interest, and I choose Snowboarding! I'll start by discussing the Superpipe... The Superpipe has always been an event where the athletes evolve or die, meaning that a Snowboarder has to either advance his or her game or simply retire... Case in point, Olympic Gold Medalist, "The Flying Tomato" Shaun White: he was the bee's knees in Torino back in 2006, but then came the discovery of the double-cork (as in 2 corkscrews)... The very face of extreme snowboarding had two options: 1) walk away from the Winter sport he most loves, or 2) fight himself tooth and nail to learn the trick... Fortunately for the sport, its fans, and Team USA Snowboarding, he chose the latter option... His energy drink sponsor, Red Bull, provided him with a special foam pit in the side of a mountain in order to practice the double-cork. After many failed attempts, he perfected the Double McTwist 1260, a move he nicknamed "Whitesnake", which would become the move he would use to earn the highest score ever given at the US Snowboarding Grand Prix... And good thing too, because it would turn out that by this very year, you would have to either have the double-cork in your arsenal, or the ability to increase your amplitude to dizzying heights... At this point in time, the only athlete to have demonstrated both qualities to an exceptional enough degree to wow even the most jaded of spectators is Olympic Gold Medalist, "The Flying Tomato" Shaun White...