Yesterday, when ESPN/Action’s Micah Abrams reported that Torah Bright, 23, had suffered her second concussion in three days and was withdrawing from Winter X Games 14 we worried that the 2010 Olympic halfpipe hustle had claimed another rider, but according to a report in The Australian Torah is okay.
She was taken to Aspen Valley Hospital for precautionary scans which cleared her of any serious injury, but she has withdrawn from the X Games, which was to have been her last competition before the Olympics. . . Bright played down the mishap as “a bit of a fall” and said it would not affect her preparation for the Winter Olympics. . . “I have really been pushing the limits of my riding and that’s all part of it,” she said. . . “It’s not the first or the last time I will have a fall. I am fine. I feel good and I just decided to sit out X Games in the best interest of focusing on the main event in Vancouver.”
That girl is tough. Hope she can keep in mellow until the games, but we’re not sure she knows how. . .
[Link: The Australian and ESPN/Action]
