Shaun White is killing it!!

The “Flying Tomato,” as he’s been increasingly referred to, quite literally soared above all competition in the men’s halfpipe event at Cypress Mountain, British Columbia Wednesday, delivering the U.S. its fifth gold medal in 2010. White scored a 48.4 on the final run, even though he was already assured of defending his 2006 Turin Olympic title with a score of 46.8 on his first trip. Including the women, the U.S. halfpipe team has won 12 of the 21 medals awarded since the sport came to the games in 1998.

Shaun became the first person to win back-to-back gold medals in the halfpipe, and there was no technical need for him to perform his signature move called the Double McTwist 1260 – which involves two off-axis backflips while doing 3.5 full rotations, all in one jump – but he knew the Olympic spectators wanted a show, and he gave ‘em one.

“I just felt like I didn’t come all the way to Vancouver not to pull out the big guns. I put down the tricks I’ve worked so hard on,” he said after the stunt.