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Flying Tomato flies into X Games gold

Shaune White, an Olympic gold medalist in snowboarding, won his first ever X- ames gold medal in skateboarding. And he's not even 18 yet.

White did back-to-back front rodeo flips to top PLG on his final run to win the gold.

"I'm just so happy, I can't even talk," he told a camera crew after winning.

Neither can I. An Olympic medalist is now an X Games medalist ... think about that one for a second.

-- Jaime Cárdenas

02:27 PM PT, Aug 5 2007 in Skateboarding | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)

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uhh, shaun white is 20....

Posted by: Amanda T | August 08, 2007 at 09:42 AM

Yep, he's 20. And his first name does not have an "e" at the end. Learn your facts before you write a story, Jaime! ;)

Posted by: Vanessa | August 16, 2007 at 12:39 AM

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LA Times X Games bloggers Jaime Cardenas, Dan Arritt, and Ken Fowler

Dan Arritt (center), Times writer and O.C. native, has covered high school, college, the X Games and professional sports ranging from football to surfing in his two decades with The Times.

Jaime Cardenas (left), a Times intern and San Diego native who grew up in Tijuana with a passion for sports and writing, is a recent graduate of Cal State Fullerton. He has covered the World Baseball Classic, soccer's Gold Cup and junior college and high school sports.

Ken Fowler, a Times intern and Long Island, N.Y., native who attends the University of Notre Dame, has covered Notre Dame football since 2005 as well as women's basketball, college soccer, fencing and, most recently, the Galaxy (the soccer team, not our part of the universe).

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