Ankle injury keeps White out of slopestyle at X Games
By Colin Bane, XGames.com
ASPEN — Shaun White’s planned return to the podium in men’s snowboard slopestyle at the Winter X Games will have to wait.
After taking practice runs Friday morning before the elimination round, White deemed his sprained left ankle too much of a liability, and left the Winter X Games 2012 venue at Buttermilk as the competition started.
White, who signed this season to train at Northstar, was treated by X Games medical staff Thursday after aggravating a sprained ankle, but had been cleared to ride.
“I’m disappointed. My priority this year was to ride in slopestyle, and unfortunately I hit my ankle again riding the course in today’s practice,” White told ESPN Friday. “I’m going to rest up and get ready to ride pipe on Sunday.”
