Shaun White (USA) wins gold medal in the men’s half pipe event during the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver on February 17th, Wednesday. Shaun won the same medal in Torino 4 years ago!

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tons of pictures of Shaun during the race & after the win including his girlfriend’s pictures after the jump…

White beat Peetu Piiroinen (Finland) who got the silver medal and Scott Lago (USA) who got the bronze medal. Congratulations!

The US leads the Olympic as of the end of Wednesday with 14 medals: 5 gold, 3 silver and 6 bronze. Click Here for the latest medal count for all the leading countries.

A little about Shaun, he’s 23, a San Diego native and as an infant he was born with a Tetralogy of Fallot, a congenital heart defect for which he had to undergo two open-heart operations before he turned one-year-old but that never stopped him. For his height, he might not be the tallest of the batch, Shaun stands only 5 feet 8.

photos: The girl in the pictures could well be Shaun’s girlfriend.

Congratulations to Shaun, he sends the message to the world that the sky is the limit!

photos: Pacific Cost News

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