Shaun White
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I don't know.
I just just like I felt it the other way.
I was like, I'm going to win this thing for sure.
There's no way I'm not going to make this run.
And I just remember thinking, like, I can picture it because I was like, you know, enjoy it because this is you're going to win this thing.
And I remember the orange of the outfits we were wearing, all the all the.
um banners and flags and things were orange and then they had a big flag at the top um and the flag was down meaning no wind and like this it was kind of overcast that day and it started to open up a little bit and i was like this is perfect moment and like a song came on i recognize it's like some post malone stuff and i was like
And, man, nailed it to win it, you know.
And so that's why at the end of that Olympics, like, I don't know if I've ever really broken down that much.
But it was such an emotional journey to get to that point.
Yeah, man.
To, like, from the family stuff to, you know, Instagram, whatever, all these things that I changed in my life.
And then to have that bad accident and really question everything only to get there and win.
It was just such like a...
overwhelming as, you know, joy and all that stuff.
Yeah, it was a heavy one.
Yeah, so it was heavy.
And trust me, getting to that point where I'm like, wow, I'm just going to do it when I get there.
That's nuts.
I'd been plotting for over, you know, actually four years at this point for this one moment, and I'm going to show up unprepared.