Action sports icon Shaun White closed out the 2012 Winter X Games on Sunday night by winning a fifth consecutive gold medal in the Snowboard Superpipe competition--and by registering a first-ever perfect score of 100 in the marquee event. "It's unreal. I've been wanting that 100 forever," White told ESPN's Tina Dixon, during an interview at the bottom of the superpipe on Buttermilk Mountain in Aspen, Colo. (Video shows White's perfect run.)


White posted the perfect score on what amounted to a victory lap, having already earned a 94.00 on his first of three runs Sunday night. As the last rider, and with nobody having topped 94.00, White dropped into the U-shaped pipe and unleashed what announcers described as the best run in the history of superpipe riding.

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(Freeskier Bobby Brown, in 2010 at the Ski Big-Air competition, becamethe first Winter X Games athlete to register a perfect score.)

White's run included a series of new-age tricks that his peers simply are incapable of stringing together: a backside air, front-side double-cork 1080, a cab double-cork 1080, a front-side stalefish 540, a double McTwist 1260, and a front-side double-cork 1260.

Those numbers represent degrees of rotation and the descriptions represent White's pre-launch stance and variations (flips and board grabs) of the tricks he performed while soaring high above the superpipe's 22-foot walls.

White, 25, a two-time Olympic gold medalist, was asked by Dixon how he expects to improve on a score of 100. The red-headed athlete thought for a second and quipped,

"There's always next year."