Snowboarder White looks for another gold (AP)

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Snowboarding was at a crossroads, and Shaun White knew it. The decision by competition officials two years ago to raise the walls on the halfpipe from 18 to 22 feet gave riders a blank canvas. The way the world's most famous snowboarder looked at it, the sport could go one or two ways. One option -- admittedly the safer one -- was to pack more dizzying spins into a run.

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