“The overall riding was incredible,” Donna Burton Carpenter, whose late husband, Jake, invented the modern-day snowboard and helped bring the sport to the mountain and into the mainstream, told The Associated Press in a phone interview. “I think, on some level, we were all rooting for Shaun today. He gave it his best shot and went out like a champion.”
Shaun White’s Olympic goodbye ends with a 4th-place finish in Beijing
