The superstar has mostly avoided major injury, and the peak of his career came shortly after the Olympics began to include action sports like the halfpipe.
On Feb. 10, Kelly Clark grabbed the gold in the women's halfpipe snowboarding, and in the men's halfpipe yesterday, Americans took the gold, silver and bronze.
Consider that when freestyle skier Sarah Burke died while training for the 2012 Winter X Games, her contemporaries honored her memory by throwing down stunts in a halfpipe just like the one that caused her death.