The nicknames are retired. The mop of red hair that once served as Shaun White’s signature look more than a decade ago is long gone.
The torch the now 35-year-old snowboarding icon carried so capably for so long since his first gold-medal-winning run down the halfpipe in Torino 16 years ago has been picked up by a series of newcomers who grew up watching him.
The group — led by two-time Japanese silver medalist Ayumu Hirano — will stand at the top of the pipe in Genting Snow Park looking to do . . .