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Hunter Wood competes for the men's snowboard slopestyle qualifications during the US Snowboarding and Freeskiing Grand Prix on March 2, 2012 in Mammoth, California.
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Shaun White soars above the pipe on his final run as he won the goal medal in the men's snowboard superpipe final during Winter X Games 2012 at Buttermilk Mountain on Jan. 29, 2012 in Aspen, Colorado.
The Associated Press reports:
With the gold medal already his, Shaun White laid down a victory lap to remember — a perfect one.
White earned his fifth consecutive superpipe gold Sunday night, earning a perfect 100 on his third and final run.
Says White: "It's unreal. I've been wanting that 100 forever." Read more.
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Snowboarder Kevin Pearce hits the slopes for the first time, Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2011, in Breckenridge, Colo. Nearly two years after an accident on the halfpipe that nearly took his life, Pearce is doing what nobody could have predicted by riding again.
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Snowboarder Kevin Pearce hugs his mother, Pia, after hitting the slopes for the first time, Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2011, in Breckenridge, Colo.
For his sake, I hope Pearce doesn't go back to halfpipe competition (see photo below).
AP reports:
BRECKENRIDGE, Colo. - Back on the snowboard, back on the mountain, Kevin Pearce rode again Tuesday — 712 days after a devastating accident on the halfpipe nearly took his life.
On a sunsplashed day in Breckenridge, the 24-year-old former champion took three mellow runs down the hill with friends and fans.
Pearce suffered severe head trauma during a training accident on Dec. 31, 2009. Some doctors suggested he'd never ride again. Others said he should always hold out hope.
And ride again he did. Without any trouble. Fitting for this day, those who rode with him replaced the old stickers on their snowboards — the ones that said "I Ride For Kevin" — with new ones that had the "I" and the "For" scratched out and instead read, "Ride With Kevin."
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Kevin Pearce of Norwich, Vermont practices before the Men's Snowboard Superpipe elimination during Winter X Games Day 3 on Buttermilk Mountain on Jan. 24, 2009 in Aspen, Colorado.
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Australian snowboarder Alex Pullin, right, competes ahead of Tony Ramoin from France, second right, Hans Reichen from Switzerland, second left, and Hanno Douschan from Austria, left, in the Border Cross 1/8 final of the FIS Snowboarding World Championships on Jan. 18 at La Molina in the north of Spain. Pullin won the race.
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Australia's Alex Pullin, bottom, competes to win the men's Snowboard Cross (SBX) final in La Molina, Spain on Jan. 18. Seth Wescott of the US, top left, took second and Italy's Luca Matteotti, right, finished third.
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Alex Pullin of Australia, right, takes 1st place during the FIS Snowboard World Championships in La Molina, Spain.
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