Shaun White Wins Gold Again - To 'Paradise City'

[FunkyMonkey]

 

Shaun White Wins Gold Again: Wake-Up Video

2/18/10

If you're like the denizens of the MTV Newsroom (and the surprisingly massive audiences watching at home), you've caught a nasty case of Olympic Fever. Wednesday (February 17) was a banner day for the United States at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, as the nation took home three high-profile gold medals. Lindsey Vonn overcame an ankle injury and an extremely dangerous course to win the women's downhill event (narrowly beating teammate Julia Mancuso, who took home the silver). Speedskater Shani Davis repeated his stellar performance in Turin back in 2006, scoring the top spot in the 1,000 meter race. And in another jaw-dropping performance, Shaun "The Flying Tomato" White scored the second Olympic gold medal of his career in the snowboarding halfpipe competition.

White's performance in the halfpipe was truly awe-inspiring, and the 23-year-old scored a 46.8 in his first run ? a number that none of the other 11 competitors came remotely close to challenging. With the gold medal in the bag and his second run a moot point, one would think that White would simply call it a day. But he rose to the occasion and wowed the crowd with an incredible trick called the Double McTwist 1260. The death-defying stunt saw White pull off two full flips and three-and-a-half turns all in the same jump. (Check out video of the trick here and try not to lose your breakfast.)

The true highlight of the run may have been White's choice of music for his finale. White dropped into the pipe to the sounds of Guns N' Roses' "Paradise City," the ultimately victory song for one of the most accomplished athletes on the U.S. team. We're not sure if Axl has been watching the games in Vancouver, but we're pretty sure he'd be proud.

http://newsroom.mtv.com/2010/02/18/shaun-white-olympics-video/

[willow]

Now thats sweet! thanks for bringing the Gold home Shawn!!!
amyl

[ppbebe]

thats hip 

gn'r ftw!

[gunsnroses85]

http://www.nbcolympics.com/video/assetid=d924411a-bea6-4fd8-b485-f58dc5238dfe.html#mens+halfpipe+white+wins+gold

Video of Shaun's run, starts around the 3:36 mark. You have to listen closely but Paradise City was definitely playing.

[FunkyMonkey]

^^ Cool video.

Shaun White Dishes on His Olympic Playlist

Posted on Feb 19th 2010

Turns out that in addition to being the world's best snowboarder, White's also got a crush on rock n' roll. "I've always liked music," he recalls, saying that AC/DC and Guns N' Roses get him pretty pumped up during competition. "I once competed in a snowboarding event where I won a guitar ... I picked it up and I couldn't put it down." Before he knew it, he was playing three or four hours a day. Then there's his iPod. He has it with him at all times (yes, even on the slopes) and lets it play through the speakers.

Spinner

[plissken2013]

The last paragraph would have been enough for me, but nice!

[Annie]

Sean inspires me so much! I want to take up snowboarding! I was a big fan before, but I'm an even bigger fan now that I know he loves GNR!

[Smoking Guns]

His performance was beyond amazing.  The guy is a stud.  He raised the bar even higher just for the hell of it even after he had it already won.

[Annie]

His performance was beyond amazing.  The guy is a stud.  He raised the bar even higher just for the hell of it even after he had it already won.

It was mindblowing and epic. He reminded me of Buckethead with his height, clothing and technical brilliance and playing air guitar. His charisma and bandana and flaming red hair reminded me of Axl. Hearing that he's a huge GNR fan is just icing on the cake for me!

[ppbebe]

take me down
beat me down
Oh, won't you please take me home

[Jdog0830]

I thought Shaun was a GN'R kind of guy!

Everyone though knew he would win and he slaughtered the compition without a doubt.




Joe

[Vicious Wishes]

I heard about this the other day. I really don't think it's too surprising because GnR's music  is so, I don't know what the right word is, but to me it gets me more excited, pumped, whatever than any other music ever has.
If you've got a challenge in front of you, crank up your favorite GnR song and kick it's ass.

[Jdog0830]

I heard about this the other day. I really don't think it's too surprising because GnR's music  is so, I don't know what the right word is, but to me it gets me more excited, pumped, whatever than any other music ever has.
If you've got a challenge in front of you, crank up your favorite GnR song and kick it's ass.

Thats what I also thought about it to!



Joe