‘And The Oscar Goes To…’: Tony Hawk Picks His Favorite to Win With Shaun White and Kelly Slater Ahead of Oscars 2022

American snowboarding legend Shaun White certainly has his plate full after retirement. The thirty-five-year-old has been keeping himself busy after hanging up his gloves once and for all.

In fact, he just returned from Costa Rica after a long and beautiful vacation with partner Nina Dobrev. Additionally, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Shaun as an Oscars presenter a few days ago.

Moreover, he met other legendary sportspersons at the pre-Oscars party, including two fellow legends.

Shaun White meets two fellow extreme sports legends at the Oscars

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Shaun White as a presenter at the 2022 Oscars. Thus, White attended the pre-Oscars party as well, where he met two legends.

Shaun met skateboarding legend Tony Hawk and legendary surfer Kelly Slater at the Oscars. In fact, the Academy had announced all three of them as presenters for this year’s Oscars award presentation.

It was fifty-two-year-old Tony Hawk who took to Twitter to share a photo of the three legends together. Moreover, his caption for the image was quite hilarious, too.

“And the Oscar goes too… standing on a board sideways!” Hawk wrote on his Twitter feed. Additionally, he used skateboarding, snowboarding, and surfing emojis next to his caption- one for each of the trio.

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Certainly, it must have been one crazy dinner conversation between the three legends. Interestingly, with White having just retired and Hawk approaching the 20-year-anniversary for his own retirement next year, it is only fifty-year-old Slater who is yet to retire.

White talked about ‘unretiring’ like Tom Brady

NFL legend Tom Brady shocked the world with his decision to ‘unretire’ a month after choosing to quit the sport. On the other hand, Shaun White, who just retired last month after the Beijing Winter Olympics, has no such plans.

White pointed out how what sets him apart from Tom Brady post-retirement is the fact that he can continue enjoying snowboarding casually.

“I understand for someone like Tom Brady or anyone else, where I don’t know, what you do go play a pickup game at the local YMCA? Like, what do you do?” White said in an interview.

“At least for snowboarding skateboarding, surfing, you can still go enjoy that sport casually,” he explained. Thus, it is clear that he intends to take to the snow whenever he pleases for some casual fun.

Consequently, it also means he won’t ever miss the sport completely and will continue enjoying the retired life.

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