Reuters; Snowboarding Shorn White crash-lands in Sochi. SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) - For Shaun White, the greatest snowboarder of his generation and the inspiration to millions of daredevil kids wanting to follow in his tracks, the Sochi Olympics was not so much a hard fall but a crash landing. The biggest drawcard. USA TODAY; No medal for Shaun White, big wins for women. Shaun White arrived in Sochi trying to win two gold medals, but leaves with none. There was some good news for team U.S.A though as an American woman made Olympic history. Loading... Post to Facebook. Washington Post ; Snowboarder Shaun White falls short in quest for a third Olympic gold medal. Photo Gallery: Shaun White fails to medal in men's halfpipe, Devin Logan wins silver in women's ski slopestyle and more. KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia — When the cameras zoomed in on the unusual sight of snowboarding's biggest star. White falls to the I-Pod in Olympic stunner. Maybe it was all too much. Or maybe just one of those bad nights. That debate will last a long time. Shaun White stood at the top of the Olympic halfpipe Tuesday night, hunched over, hands resting above his knees. Winter Olympics 2014: Shaun White's half-pipe reign ended by I-Pod and a ... Shaun White's miserable Olympics ended without a medal as the American finished fourth in the half-pipe, upstaged by a Russian competing for Switzerland and a 15-year-old Japanese schoolboy. White was seeking a third successive gold medal. The Guardian; American snowboarding icon fails to win third gold. Shaun White contemplates missing out on any kind of medal in the men's final of the halfpipe at Sochi on Tuesday. Photograph: ZUMA/REX. It was not the American Shaun White, snowboarding icon and double Olympic champion.

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