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Shaun White, Chloe Kim among four U.S. snowboarders to defend Olympic titles in Beijing

Olympic Sports, Winter Olympics

ASPEN, Colo. -- Shaun White is one of four defending gold medalists named to the U.S. snowboarding team Friday, along with Chloe Kim, Jamie Anderson and Red Gerard.

Only White had to sweat out his spot on the team after a difficult month of qualifying that included a bout with COVID-19 and an injured ankle.

He finished third last week at a World Cup halfpipe contest in Switzerland to eliminate any doubt about his spot, and the U.S. Ski and Snowboard team made it official when it announced the 26-person team.

Kim won the gold in women's halfpipe in 2018, while Anderson and Gerard won in slopestyle.

Lindsey Jacobellis, the 2006 silver medalist, made her fifth Olympics in snowboardcross, and Alex Deibold, the wax technician-turned-2014 bronze medalist, also is back at the Games.

The rest of the team:

Maddie Mastro, Zoe Kalapos, Tessa Maud (women's halfpipe). Taylor Gold, Chase Josey, Lucas Foster (men's halfpipe). Hailey Langland, Julia Marino, Courtney Rummel (women's slopestyle/big air). Dusty Henricksen, Chris Corning, Sean FitzSimons (men's slopestyle/big air). Faye Gulini, Stacy Gaskill, Meghan Tierney (women's snowboardcross). Nick Baumgartner, Hagen Kearney, Mick Dierdorff (men's snowboardcross). Robby Burns, Cody Winters (men's parallel giant slalom).

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