Shaun White is the “golden boy” of the 2010 winter Olympics in Vancouver and is highly favored to bring home the gold for team USA. He has won gold at the X games every year since 2002 and is surely going to explode onto the world scene at the Olympics. He was born with a congenital heart defect and had to invasive surgery twice before his second birthday. He is often known as “The Flying Tomato” a name which he used to embrace but has since become tired of it. He prefers the title “The Animal” referring to the Muppets character which shares a similar appearance with Shaun.
In 2009 Shaun had a video game released by Nintendo entitled “Shaun White Snowboarding” which was personally played and demonstrated by him at that years E3 expo in California. He is currently dating but refuses to disclose the girls name although he does admit that it is “Not who people expect”.