Shaun White Announces Retirement from Pro Snowboarding Ahead of 2022 Winter Olympics Events

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Shaun White has announced that he is retiring from professional snowboarding. The 35-year-old Olympic athlete will be competing at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing and he announced the news at a press conference for the men’s snowboard halfpipe event. Shaun confirmed that the 2022 games will be his last and his final overall competition. Click inside to find out what he said… “This has all had its amazing glow to every single decision and every single competition because I’ve decided this will be my last Olympics.

I’ve given it my all. There have been some ups and downs on the way to get here, but through all that, I feel I’ve got stronger [and] gotten better,” Shaun said. “In my mind … I’ve decided this will be the last competition,” he added. “After the Olympics, I don’t compete much after the Games, cause it’s just so much to get here, so much pressure is weighing on you, and then finally that relief is so wanted and needed.

And then I usually take the season after the Olympics off, just to focus and kind of get excited about things again … but it will be my last competition, which is pretty special too.” Shaun definitely plans on sticking around the sport though. “I definitely don’t think I’ll be leaving the sport anytime soon,” he added. “I think the beautiful part about snowboarding is there’s still a life to be had within the sport outside of competition.” Shaun recently admitted something about his girlfriend Nina Dobrev.