{"id":89862,"date":"2014-01-28T20:20:06","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T03:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=89862"},"modified":"2014-01-28T20:20:06","modified_gmt":"2014-01-29T03:20:06","slug":"torah-bright-becomes-first-ever-snowboarder-to-qualify-for-three-olympic-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=89862","title":{"rendered":"TORAH BRIGHT, BECOMES FIRST EVER SNOWBOARDER TO QUALIFY FOR THREE OLYMPIC EVENTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Huntington Beach, Calif. \u2013 January 28, 2014 Roxy athlete, Torah Bright, announced her qualification to compete in women\u2019s snowboard cross for the Australian national team at the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi.\u00a0 Bright will be competing in three snowboarding events (slopestyle, halfpipe and snowboard cross) over the span of the Games, a feat never before achieved by a male or female athlete.\u00a0 She was confirmed to compete in halfpipe and slopestyle last week when Australia made their initial Olympic selections.\u00a0 Bright\u2019s official invitation to the snowboard cross was received this past weekend.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The decision to pursue three disciplines came one year ago, when prompted by\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snowboardermag.com\/news\/roxy-athlete-torah-bright-becomes-first-ever-snowboarder-qualify-three-olympic-events\/\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Huntington Beach, Calif. \u2013 January 28, 2014 Roxy athlete, Torah Bright, announced her qualification to compete in women\u2019s snowboard cross for the Australian national team at the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi.\u00a0 Bright will be competing in three snowboarding events (slopestyle, halfpipe and snowboard cross) over the span of the Games, a feat never [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-snow","category-snowboard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89863,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89862\/revisions\/89863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}