{"id":13588,"date":"2010-01-29T06:55:38","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T14:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=13588"},"modified":"2010-01-29T06:58:01","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T14:58:01","slug":"concussion-not-stopping-torah-bright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=13588","title":{"rendered":"Concussion Not Stopping Torah Bright"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/as_wx14_bright01_300.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/as_wx14_bright01_300.jpg','popup','width=300,height=200,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/as_wx14_bright01_300-tm.jpg\" height=\"133\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"As Wx14 Bright01 300\" \/><\/a>Yesterday, when <strong>ESPN\/Action&#8217;s Micah Abrams<\/strong> reported that Torah Bright, 23, had suffered her <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/action\/xgames\/winter\/2010\/snowboarding\/news\/story?page=Torah-Bright-Out-Of-Winter-X\" target=\"_blank\">second concussion in three days<\/a><\/strong> 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 <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/news\/sport\/torah-bright-withdraws-from-x-games-but-keeps-her-eye-on-vancouver\/story-e6frg7mf-1225824862181\" target=\"_blank\">The Australian<\/a><\/em><\/strong> Torah is okay.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>She was taken to Aspen Valley Hospital for precautionary scans which cleared her of any serious injury, but she has withdrawn from the X Games, which was to have been her last competition before the Olympics.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 &#8220;a bit of a fall&#8221; and said it would not affect her preparation for the Winter Olympics. . . &#8220;I have really been pushing the limits of my riding and that&#8217;s all part of it,&#8221; she said. . . &#8220;It&#8217;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.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That girl is tough. Hope she can keep in mellow until the games, but we&#8217;re not sure she knows how. . . <\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/news\/sport\/torah-bright-withdraws-from-x-games-but-keeps-her-eye-on-vancouver\/story-e6frg7mf-1225824862181\" target=\"_blank\">The Australian<\/a><\/strong><strong> and <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/action\/xgames\/winter\/2010\/snowboarding\/news\/story?page=Torah-Bright-Out-Of-Winter-X\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN\/Action<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, when ESPN\/Action&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13588"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13588"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13591,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13588\/revisions\/13591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}