We haven’t seen a ton of Torah Bright lately, but the 2010 Olympic gold medalist came out swinging at the Dew Tour women’s pipe finals today at Breckenridge, Colorado. Dew Tour placements carry extra weight this season as the tour is the first qualifying stop for riders hoping to make the US Olympic Snowboard team.
Just the third rider of the contest to drop in … Video and more
After dominating the halfpipe for the better part of a decade, Shaun White is hoping to expand his snowboarding dominance (and NBC airtime) at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, by competing in two disciplines instead of one. As usual, he’ll be going for gold in halfpipe. But he’s adding the slopestyle division to his Sochi strategy. Slopestyle is the newest Olympic discipline, and in case you’re not familiar, it’s a course loaded with a variety of features that riders must perform tricks on, including rails, boxes, walls, and massive jumps … More