a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/30/sports/olympics/30xgames.html?partner=rssnytemc=rss"img src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2010/01/30/sports/30xgames01/thumbStandard.jpg" border="0" height="75" width="75" hspace="4" align="left"/aShaun White put on a flawless performance at the Winter X Games that reinforced his status as the gold-medal favorite at the Vancouver Olympics. More...