{"id":239,"date":"2014-02-08T13:39:34","date_gmt":"2014-02-08T18:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/?p=239"},"modified":"2014-02-08T13:43:05","modified_gmt":"2014-02-08T18:43:05","slug":"meet-the-womens-snowboard-competitors-torah-bright-silje-norendal-and-isabel-derungs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/2014\/02\/08\/meet-the-womens-snowboard-competitors-torah-bright-silje-norendal-and-isabel-derungs\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Women&#8217;s Snowboard competitors Torah Bright, Silje Norendal and Isabel Derungs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-265\" alt=\"torahbright8\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/files\/2014\/02\/torahbright8.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/files\/2014\/02\/torahbright8.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/files\/2014\/02\/torahbright8-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Women&#8217;s Snowboard Slopestyle is enjoying it&#8217;s first year of Olympic activity but looking at the contestants we wish this event had been around longer.<\/p>\n<p>USA hopeful <a title=\"Meet Jamie Anderson, US Olympic Snowboarder Medal Hopeful (Photos)\" href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/2014\/02\/08\/meet-jamie-anderson-us-olympic-snowboarder-medal-hopeful-photos\/\">Jamie Anderson<\/a> is one of many women hoping for a Gold Medal in Women&#8217;s Snowboard Slopestyle but there are others that will surely have interest from the viewers at home. Below we take a look at a few of the favorites.<\/p>\n<h2>Torah Bright<\/h2>\n<p>Bright, 27, of Australia is pretty good at this Olympic thing.\u00a0In 2010 Bright won Gold in the Women&#8217;s Halfpipe in Vancouver. She has been around in the Olympics since 2006.<\/p>\n<p>In Sochi, Bright will attempt to compete in three snowboarding events: halfpipe, slopestyle and boardercross. She now lives in SaltLake City, Utah.<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\" async=\"\"><\/script><!-- medium in story ad --> <ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 468px; height: 15px;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6139055459619465\" data-ad-slot=\"9984433490\"><\/ins><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<p><i>[slideshow_deploy id=&#8217;257&#8242;]<\/i><\/p>\n<h2>Silje Norendal<\/h2>\n<p>Norendal, 20, jumped onto the radar a few weeks ago after winning Gold in the X Games from Aspen. Now the Norwegian born snowboarder is hoping to find a medal in Sochi as she competes in the Women&#8217;s Snowboard Slopestyle even.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s not guaranteed to make it to the finals so her work is cut out for her.<\/p>\n<p><i>[slideshow_deploy id=&#8217;267&#8242;]<\/i><\/p>\n<h2>Isabel Derungs<\/h2>\n<p>Isabel Derungs, 26, of Swizerland is also hoping to win a medal in slopestyle. Her resume is not as impressive as some in the field but she&#8217;s doing some of her best boarding right now.<\/p>\n<p>She qualified first and will appear in the finals.<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\" async=\"\"><\/script><!-- medium in story ad --> <ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 468px; height: 15px;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6139055459619465\" data-ad-slot=\"9984433490\"><\/ins><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<p><i>[slideshow_deploy id=&#8217;276&#8242;]<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Are you ready for Snowboarding? Do you have another favorite?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women&#8217;s Snowboard Slopestyle is enjoying it&#8217;s first year of Olympic activity but looking at the contestants we wish this event had been around longer. USA hopeful Jamie Anderson is one of many women hoping for a Gold Medal in Women&#8217;s Snowboard Slopestyle but there are others that will surely have interest from the viewers at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[40],"coauthors":[5],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-meet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions\/285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}