Shaun White entered in first slopestyle event since Sochi Olympics

Shaun White is entered in halfpipe and slopestyle for next week’s U.S. Open in Vail, Colo., which would mark his first slopestyle competition since he pulled out the day before the event at the Sochi Olympics.

White, the 2006 and 2010 Olympic halfpipe champion, qualified to compete in the event’s Olympic debut in Sochi but pulled out the day before the event, citing injury risk on the modified course.

He later finished fourth in the Sochi Olympic halfpipe.

“I would be lying to say I didn’t maybe bite off a little more than I could chew for this [past] Olympics, just training-wise, it was a gauntlet to try to do both [halfpipe and slopestyle],” White said on “SI Now” on Sept. 16, 2014. “I’m…