Shaun White takes gold in Dew Tour snowboard superpipe

In an outcome that comes as very little surprise to viewers, the Dew Tour men’s snowboarding super-pipe has been won by Shaun White. As one of the most dominating athletes arguably in any sport, White has won all of the big snowboarding competitions and taken the sport to new levels by inventing new tricks. White has been competing on the professional scene since the age of 13, and was the first athlete to achieve a perfect score of 100.00 in a competition. The boarder has become a household name with both avid viewers of the sport and even viewers who have a fleeting interest in the Winter Olympics. White has won a winter X Games medal every year since 2002 and is the only competitor ever to win medals in both the summer and winter X games.

Up and coming Japanese snowboarder Ayumu Hirano took second place. At just 17 years old, Hirano looks set to have a very successful career ahead of him. In 2013, Hirano competed in the winter X Games in Aspen winning silver and becoming the youngest medallist in X Games history, losing out to Shaun White on that occasion.

Coming in third was Iouri Podlatchikov, the man known as IPod. IPod won his bronze position by the narrowest of margins, edging ahead of Taylor Gold by just 0.20 points!

Although many of the big names were missing, this was a category full of very talented riders with big tricks. So what gives the likes of White the cutting edge? His amplitude and progressive creation of new tricks are second to none. His landings in the pipe are insanely clean, making carving through the pipe look extremely easy. It’s very rare to see even a small wobble of the board as White transitions down the walls. He is without question the most successful (in competition) and arguable the best boarder ever to have strapped in.