Shaun White 2005 winter X Games

Shaun White 2005 Gold Medal Performance at the 2005 Winter X Games

The owner of three of the highest Slopestyle scores in WXG history, the 4-peat "Flying Tomato" has reached celebrity status post his two gold medals at WX'06. White won gold in halfpipe at the '06 Winter Olympic Games, won both halfpipe and slopestyle at the '06 US Open, and he won his second professional skateboarding Dew Tour vert competition in July, '06. From snowboarding star to supernova, the red-head personifies action sports for the American mainstream with appearances on everything from Letterman to Leno, the covers of both Rolling Stone and Sports Illustrated, starred in an HP Pavillion Notebook laptop commercial, has is own PlayStation video game (set to release in '07) and named alongside Joe Namath and Willie Mays as one of GQ Magazines' 16 Coolest Sports Heroes of All Time (Nov. 2006).