{"id":335260,"date":"2010-02-18T11:19:28","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T16:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=93621"},"modified":"2010-02-18T11:19:28","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T16:19:28","slug":"shaun-white-wins-gold-with-double-mctwist-1260","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/335260","title":{"rendered":"Shaun White Wins Gold With Double McTwist 1260"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/shaun-white-mctwist.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/shaun-white-mctwist-500x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"shaun-white-mctwist\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-93622\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In an otherwise sloppy and mistake prone Winter Olympics, Shaun White took everyone&#8217;s breath away last night when he did his signature Double McTwist 1260 during the snowboarding half-pipe competition.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-93621\"><\/span>Although Shaun White had clearly already won gold in an earlier run, he saved his best trick for last.  As White said of the Double McTwist 1260, he &#8220;just felt like I didn&#8217;t come all the way to Vancouver not to pull out the big guns. I put down the tricks I&#8217;ve worked so hard on.&#8221;   The Double McTwist 1260 is a move that distinguishes Shaun White from the rest of the competitors as he is the only person in the world who can currently perform the trick.<\/p>\n<p>The 2010 gold medal win for Shaun White was a defense of the one he earned in 2006 and solidified his position as one of the most dominant Olympians of all time.<\/p>\n<p>For full video coverage of Shaun White&#8217;s 2010 snowboarding half-pipe competition, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcolympics.com\/video\/assetid=d924411a-bea6-4fd8-b485-f58dc5238dfe.html#mens+halfpipe+white+wins+gold\">visit this link at NBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/sxbYiz4p1WdKHxtq_s65LkPpDk0\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/sxbYiz4p1WdKHxtq_s65LkPpDk0\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/sxbYiz4p1WdKHxtq_s65LkPpDk0\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/sxbYiz4p1WdKHxtq_s65LkPpDk0\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an otherwise sloppy and mistake prone Winter Olympics, Shaun White took everyone&#8217;s breath away last night when he did his signature Double McTwist 1260 during the snowboarding half-pipe competition. Although Shaun White had clearly already won gold in an earlier run, he saved his best trick for last. As White said of the Double [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":933,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-335260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/933"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}