Snowboarding legend Shaun White is going for Olympic gold on Wednesday morning (Tuesday night for those watching in the United States) in his signature event of the men’s halfpipe at the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea.
After qualifying for the men’s snowboarding halfpipe finals with a 98.5 run, White faces stiff competition heading into the finals, where he will square off against Australia’s Scotty James and Japan’s Ayumu Hirano.
The men’s halfpipe final follows the women’s event, where American phenom Chloe Kim won the gold medal and became the youngest woman to do so in the event in Winter Olympics history.
That was just one gold medal in what has so far been a U.S. sweep of the sport, with snowboarders Red Gerard and Jamie Anderson scoring gold m