‘I’m not sad’; Shaun White says goodbye with Olympics finale

White finished one spot away from medaling in his final competition at the Beijing Olympics.

, he pulled it off for the first time ever and finished first. This fourth-place finish, thanks to an earlier run that was a tad less difficult, matched the other just-off-the-podium result he got during his frenzied trip to the Sochi Games in 2014.

As White reminisced over 90 minutes’ worth of post-contest interviews, he spoke of his sheer delight he felt as a kid when his mom busted through the door in his classroom, holding the new snowboard that had finally arrived. And he spoke about always wanting to prove himself. So many people thought he was throwing his life away by focusing on a sport that, when he started, wasn’t even accepted on every mountain in America.

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