Snowboarding's beef with Shaun White

For all sports fans who don't follow snowboarding, this will be the strangest beef ever.

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As for this beef, it hinges on the approach to snowboarding competition that focuses more on fun than we're used to. It's a beautiful thing, but one that's hard to maintain with tons of money on the line.

Shaun White brought a different approach, a mindset that made sense in other sports, but one that drew the ire of his competitors. But he couldn't stop winning, he couldn't stop drawing attention, and with all that attention being more for him than the sport, some disagreements proved unavoidable.

Directed and edited by Jiazhen Zhang
Written and produced by Will Buikema

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