Why did The Tomato cut his hair... then lose.?

He's getting older. He's almost 30. He probably cut his hair to look more mature, and I honestly find it more attractive. It's honestly not a surprise he lost either. He has been dealing with a lot of injuries lately and the body can only handle Olympic-level training for so long. He's also been venturing into other things such as music lately. It sucks that he didn't get the last hoorah he wanted, but his career has been very successful as is.

He may not have medaled in this year's Olympics but he didn't lose. He is 27 after all and at some point he would have had to step aside for younger competitors. That's just the way it is in anything dependent heavily on the body. Snowboarding is hard on the body, those jarring landing, those twists. It's one winter sport I wish I could have done (well, not all those extreme tricks though) but at my age, even if I don't pay enough attention and twist in certain ways, my joints start screaming and giving me trouble for days afterward. You have to realize that snowboard is a relatively young sport, especially in the Olympics. Without Shaun pushing the envelope all these years it might have turned into the, yawn, same kind of sport like so many others where they'd have to do a half pike, then a 190 then a super yutz (whatever)--all dictated by someone else and it'd have turned into a very boring competition. But because Shaun has worked so hard to promote the sport, because he's pushed the sport to the extreme, it's still a self-expressive run. Yea, Shaun didn't win but he's done more for that sport then anyone else, he's the one most associated with raising the sport from infancy--and spreading the desire in so many young folks to go for it. No one is going to remember whoever the guys are that won this year; everyone is going to remember Shaun White. I don't think he has anything to be down about, or ashamed of, Why he cut his hair, could be that he just feels that maybe he needed to grow up and give up his long hair. Maybe he just wanted to see what it feels like. Maybe he just wanted something new. It'll be interesting to see if he keeps his short hair or if he lets it grow out again since many sportsmen/women are very superstitious.