Shaun White is the heavy favourite to take gold in the Men’s Halfpipe competition. If he pulls it off he’ll be the most successful snowboarder in Olympic history and will have won the halfpipe event in the last three games. There’ll be plenty of people hoping to pip him to gold – including his own teammates but the Flying Tomato has everything he needs to win.

Achieving history is something that weighs heavily on White’s shoulders as though he is only 29 he’s already considering the scale of his legacy in the sport. Another huge dollop of mainstream success would help in that regard.

It’s clear that White sees Tuesday’s event as the biggest of the career and pulled out of the X-Games entirely before deciding against participating in the Olympic Slopestyle earlier this week in order to absolutely focus on the Halfpipe.