Snowboarding Legend Shaun White Set to Begin His Final Quest for Olympic Gold

It’s practically time for Shaun White to snowboard off into the sundown.

The query is whether or not he’ll accomplish that with another medal round his neck.

The snowboarding legend, who on Saturday introduced he’ll retire following the 2022 Winter Video games, will start his fifth and remaining Olympics on Tuesday when he takes half within the males’s snowboard halfpipe qualifier on NBC and Peacock.

Right here’s every thing it’s essential to know:

When is Shaun White snowboarding on the Olympics?

White’s remaining quest for gold will start with the qualifying spherical at 11:30 p.m. ET on Tuesday.

Ought to White end within the prime 12 within the subject of 25, he’ll advance to the medal spherical on Thursday at 8:30 p.m. ET for what could be the final run of his Olympic profession.

The 35-year-old is trying to turn into the primary Winter Olympian to win 4 gold medals in the identical particular person occasion, having received in 2006, 2010 and 2018. At 35 years outdated, he’ll additionally turn into the oldest competitor in males’s halftime in Olympics historical past.

Who’re the favorites in males’s halfpipe?

White enters the 2022 Video games in an unfamiliar function: as an underdog.

Gold-medal candidates embody a formidable trio from Japan that may look to deliver dwelling the nation’s first Olympic gold medal in snowboarding. Ayumu Hirano might be the favourite having completed behind White in 2018 for his second silver medal. Yuto Totsuka is out for redemption after struggling a devestating fall in the course of the 2018 Video games. Ruka Hirano was the 2020 Youth Olympic Video games males’s halfpipe champion.

Australia’s Scotty James, the bronze medal winner in 2018, is recent off a SuperPipe victory on the Winter X Video games.

Who’re the opposite American males snowboarders?

Additionally competing for Workforce USA are Chase Josey of Idaho, Taylor Gold of Colorado and Lucas Foster of Colorado.