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Peetu Piiroinen of Finland competes in the FIS Snowboard Slope Style World Cup finals at the US Grand Prix on January 11, 2013 in Copper Mountain, Colorado. (Photo: Shaw/Getty Images)
Not a good look: Two-time Olympic gold medallist snowboarder Shaun White faces charges of public intoxication and vandalism, accused of drunkenly destroying a phone at a Nashville hotel and ending up in the hospital after he hit his head.
Officers responded to the Loews Vanderbilt Hotel at 2 a.m. Sunday after a drunken man identified as the 26-year-old White pulled a fire alarm, forcing the hotel to evacuate all guests. An employee also reported seeing White destroy a hotel phone.
White tried to leave the hotel in a cab before being stopped by a hotel guest who told the driver police had been called. According to police, White kicked at the man before running away. The man chased him and they collided when White turned around. White, who is also one of the world’s top skateboarders, fell back and hit his head against a fence, police said.
For all the coin collectors out there: A combination photo of coins commemorating the Olympic sports of skeleton (top L), freestyle skiiing (top R), snowboarding (bottom K)and ski jumping displayed during a presentation in Peter and Pawel Fortress in St.Petersburg. The bank of Russia presented a series of commemorative coins on Tuesday devoted to the XXII Olympic winter games to be held in Sochi in 2014. Photo: REUTERS/Alexander
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Norway’s Roger Kleivdal during the Snowboard Big Air FIS World Cup 2012 competition in Stockholm Stadium on November 19, 2011.
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