I know this is old news but as there was some rider reaction, then some deletion of rider reaction, I thought it was still worth posting. Shaun White decided to pull out of the slope comp yesterday citing the course conditions and the potential for injury ahead of the halfpipe comp. He has suffered a minor injury earlier in the week on the course but there was no indication, even in the press conference just preceding the announcement, that he wasn’t going to have at it.

Canadians Max Parrot and Sebastien Toots vented on Twitter with Seb later deleting the tweet saying it had been misinterpreted. Torah Bright came out and backed White’s decision to pull out – herself having commented earlier in the week that the setup was less than ideal.

I’ll let YOBEAT take it out with their own BLR of the press conference.