Shaun Roger White is an American skateboarding and snowboarding champion, who has gained widespread renown for becoming a multi-gold-winning snowboarder at both the X-Games and The Olympics. Shaun displayed exceptional talent as a skateboarder at a young age, even catching the eye of legendary skateboarder Tony Hawk, who became White’s mentor.
Born on 3 September 1986, in San Diego, California, with a congenital heart deformity known as Tetralogy of Fallot, which could be life-threatening to infants, Shaun underwent surgery before celebrating his first birthday. Despite his frail beginnings, White would go on to pursue adrenaline-hyped hobbies that posed many dangers. Shaun spent his earliest days developing his skills in skating and snowboarding at the Okema and Bear Mountain Resorts in Southern California.
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When Shaun met Tony Hawk for the first time, he was only nine years old, and with the help of his mentor, White started competing as a pro-skateboarder by the age of seventeen. White went on to claim several championships, including the Action Sports Champion title, and becoming the first person to win the Summer and Winter X-Games in the same year though competing in different sports.
Despite being a great skateboarder and being mentored by one of the greatest competitors in the sport, White had a greater fascination with snowboarding, that was inspired by his older brother, Jesse White. Shaun turned to snowboarding when he was six years old, and had already earned his first sponsorship by the time he turned seven.
Possessing as much exceptional talent for snowboarding as he had for skateboarding, White went on to compete in four Winter Olympics, with the potential to play in several more. He began his Olympic career qualifying for the 2006 event, where Shaun won the gold medal in the halfpipe contest.
During the 2018 Winter Olympics, White snatched his fourth gold medal in the halfpipe event, which was also recorded as the 100th medal for the United States that year. Shaun has also continuously participated in snowboarding at the Winter X-Games, winning a medal every year since 2002.
His medal count stands at a total of eighteen, of which thirteen are gold, three silver and two bronze.
With all of his astounding success in a prolific snowboarding career that was rewarded with a self-titled video game, Shaun’s fame as an extreme sports all-star is certainly well earned. In 2014, while competing at the Winter Olympics, Shaun was the most talked-about athlete, and his renown has also landed him several endorsements, and of course, the lavish riches only champs attain.
Naturally, one would expect an all-star of White’s calibre to freely mingle and tangle with some of the most attractive women in California, and White certainly hasn’t shied away from all the attention.
Among his several suspected and confirmed relationships and hook-ups of the past, White gained mention among the many men Lindsay Lohan claimed to have encountered, though unsurprisingly his response might intrigue his fans.
A Few Early Suspected Hook Ups
Shaun rose to critical fame through his snowboarding career, competing for the first time at the X-Games, and later in the 2006 Winter Olympics, so little is known about his dating history before his time in the spotlight.
It’s believed that Shaun once engaged in a mysterious relationship with the American model best known as Andrea H. The truth about their ties and the nature of their relationship remained elusive details that were never uncovered, though many suspect the two simply enjoyed a random encounter together. When the two first met and what exactly happened between them isn’t known precisely, but Andrea would certainly always receive honorary mention when discussing Shaun’s romantic history.
Despite the mystery surrounding their relationship, it’s commonly accepted among sports gossippers that Andrea and White definitely had something going on, even if it was just a short-term fling.
Shaun’s first relationship that became regarded as his first official liaison was with the American actress, Summer Rae Spiro who, in most recent years, gained widely acclaimed recognition for her roles in films including ‘Alone’, ‘Swell’, and ‘Big Legend’.
White and Spiro met in 2004, years before Spiro’s career would reach the heights and before White became an Olympic gold medallist. However, at the time, gossip and media outlets long debated the seriousness of their relationship.
For the better part of the four years Summer and Shaun dated, they spent more time apart than together.
Eat pray love
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— Shaun White (@shaunwhite) June 20, 2021
It was no secret that the couple experienced regular difficulties and were caught in a continuous on-again-off-again complicated relationship. Often, during break periods in Summer and White’s tumultuous relationship, Shaun would be spotted hanging out with several other women, of course creating hot topics for the tabloids to exploit.
So by 2008, it seems both Spiro and White came to an agreement, and called-off their relationship for the last time, though not before sparking rumours with Lindsay Lohan.
In February 2006, photographers caught Lohan and the champion snowboarder together at what would later be suggested was a shared intimate experience.
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