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Happy Birthday Shaun White!

September 3rd, 2010 | Posted by Queen of Sports in Birthday,Olympics,TV

The Flying Tomato, Olympic gold medal snowboarder Shaun White is celebrating his 24th birthday today!

Fun Facts About Shaun: This two-time Olympic gold medalist was born with Tetralogy of Fallot, a congenital heart defect for which he endured two open-heart operations before the age of one.

Shaun has had endorsement deals since he was seven years old. Corporate endorsement deals include Burton Snowboards,Oakley, Inc., Birdhouse Skateboards, Park City Mountain Resort, Target Corp., Ubisoft, Adio, Hewlett-Packard and Red Bull. In fact, in 2009, Red Bull built Shaun his very own secret halfpipe made out of natural snow in Colorado so he could prep for the 2010 winter Olympics.

In 2007, Shaun appeared on the E! reality television show, Girls Next Door and was shown teaching Holly Madison, Kendra Wilkinson and Bridget Marquardt how to snowboard. Check out a clip from the show:

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Happy Birthday Shaun! Hope it’s a good one!