Ready to drop into the Halfpipe for a Double McTwist or Triple Cork? Just mention the name Shaun White to anyone who loves the Olympics and watch their face light up. “You mean the G.O.A.T. of snowboarding – The Flying Tomato”? Shaun holds the world record for the most X Games gold medals and most Olympic gold medals by a snowboarder. Just think about it – we only have halfpipe in the Olympic games because Shaun popularized it.
Only 35 years old, Shaun realized early on how important it was to organize and preserve his legacy. TDAG received a large collection of mostly unorganized boxes, full of magazines, news clippings, photographs, documents, and ephemera from Shaun’s early childhood and his career in skateboarding and snowboarding. From there, our archivists went to work organizing, preserving, and digitizing the assets for creating Shaun’s digital archive.
It’s fun to see Shaun post pictures from his archive on Instagram to engage with his fans!
