Olympic gold medalist posted a photo over the weekend of himself as the intellectually disabled character played by Ben Stiller in Tropic Thunder. Shaun White said "I owe everyone in the Special Olympics community an apology for my poor choice of Halloween costume the other night, it was a last-minute decision. It was the wrong one,The Special Olympics were right to call me on it."" issuing an apology Monday about his offensive costume. Soeren Palumbo co-founder of the Special Olympics told Huffington Post he was "truly disappointed" in the professional snowboarder.
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