Data map: Sean White.

Photo by Sheng Jiapeng issued by China News Service

　　Chinanews.com client, March 22. A few days ago, the snowboard legend Sean White made a comeback in the U-shaped Snowboard World Cup in Aspen, USA.

Although he finally failed to stand on the podium in this competition, many people expect that Sean White can participate in the Beijing Winter Olympics and hit the fourth championship of the Winter Olympics.

　　This is the first time Sean White has returned to the game since winning the Winter Olympics for the third time in 2018.

Despite his outstanding performance in the preliminaries, he ranked second, but in the finals he was average and eventually ranked fourth.

　　Sean White is an American and his career is full of legends.

When he was young, he dyed long red hair, so Sean White also has the nickname "Flying Tomato".

　　According to media reports, as a patient with congenital cardiovascular malformations, Sean White underwent two heart operations before the age of 5.

He is talented and entered the professional snowboarding competition at the age of 13, but snowboarding itself is a very risky event. In his career, Sean White suffered multiple fractures or fractures in his feet and suffered multiple bone fractures during training. The injury caused dozens of stitches on the face.

On the evening of February 11, 2014, local time, in the single-board men's U-pool final of the Sochi Winter Olympics, the champion of the previous Winter Olympics and American star Sean White (pictured) made the first jump and made a mistake. In the second jump, he ranked fourth with 90.25 points.

China News Agency issued Tomita photo

　　In the 2006 Torino Winter Olympics and the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, Sean White won the U-shaped venue championship.

But at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, he suffered a disastrous defeat and only finished fourth.

　　Three years ago, in the final round of the snowboard U-shaped venue of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, he reversed the 19-year-old Japanese teenager Ayumi Hirano with a high score of 97.75, and won his third gold medal and staged the return of the king. .

　　In 2016, Sean White said in an interview: "Whether as an athlete or a coach, I hope I will have a wonderful performance in the Beijing Winter Olympics." (End)