I don't think he's that cocky. I mean, have you guys ever been around skaters/surfers/snowboarders? That's just how they are.

Love him or hate him, being able to improve his score by 2 points when he didn't have to do anything since the medal was in the bag testifies to his talent.

I feel the same, but I respect his skills.

yeah, we're all kind of dickish.

but fuck, Shaun White is doing some unimaginable shit.

True; my main wish is that he would be lobotomized with extreme prejudice, sparing only his cartoonish ability to spin in the air on a piece of plastic.

And yeah we're dickish, Dale but he mugs and grins like a fucking retard. It needs to be beat out of him somehow.

That Team USA soundtrack is so terrible it makes me sad.

Weird to hear that XX song about 10 times a day on national television.

oh man

Also watching womens halfpipe is painful after mens. Sorry ladies. 1/3 the height.

Don't get me wrong. Guys at that level clearly have an innate talent that they've worked hard on for years to be able to do the insanely ballsy stuff they do.

I've also found from my experience with BMX stunt guys at that level that they're ALWAYS "on". There is always some need for them to be wacky and crazy at all times. I've had dinners where they couldn't get through 20 minute lunch without making some scene with food or fucking with the waitress or some shit. Just annoying as hell.

Not saying that White is even like that but I'd bet he is.

I honestly haven't paid him no mind since the last Olympics but I caught some interview before these games where he hated his nickname "The Flying Tomato" and now wanted to be called "Animal".

Maybe you shouldn't have gotten famous at like, 12 then.

Nothing but respect for what he does on a snowboard/skateboard though.

I dunno, it's kind of a shitty nickname, and pretty much wholly unoriginal and probably really annoying.

It's like the Mark Twain witticists who refer to me as "Tiny" - man they know me so well that they just get right to the heart of everything about me with that description.

I think dude is a baller. I mean, they basically put snowboarding in The Olympics so he could school folks, right?

I always assumed he'd annoy the crap out out of me, so never paid much attention, but last night I was in awe and, surprisingly, not annoyed at all. Also, dude's only 23. That's, like, 15 in girl years.

I think snow-boarding debut'd as a medal sport in '98 in Nagano, so prolly not just for White, who would have been 11 at the time, but at this point, it is his show.

(I only know the first Olympic year for boarding because Ross Rebagliati was stripped of his gold medal for testing positive for marihuana.)

MJ has since been removed from the list of banned substances... for boarders.

Yeah, he has probably banged half of Western Canadia at this point.

He should wear an INVASION 2010 shirt everywhere he goes.

That's the most awful thing you've ever said. I know of a woman in Calgary, who should be 20, or approaching it, now, & I don't need to think of some snowboarder banging her. Since I'd rather be in that spot.

leave this thread you wimpy little fag.

Gold medals, sponsorship loot, pale women with healthy butts....kid is living the life.

Maybe I'm a bad person but this is the kind of thing that makes me hope he'll be breathing out of a tube by this time next year.

jealously is a bitter bitch, dumpjack

because, yeah, Yail totally meant chubby 40 year old double-chinned babydaddies in metallica t-shirts skeevin' on underage tail down at the local skate park. Like 2 peas in a pod.

Tony Hawk, while quite fit, is in his forties. Most of the first generation to break is.

Not that I'm defending Dalen. Brah won't give up his log-in for White Junk in Black Trunks, & I need that master-slave action.