Torah Bright, the Australian snowboarding gold medalist on the halfpipe at the Vancouver Olympics, may not be Jewish but her name is just what it looks like – homage to the Jewish Five Books of Moses.
Torah bright is a lifelong Mormon who grew up near the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales, Australia. Her sister Rowena told the ” title=”Salt Lake Tribune”>Salt Lake Tribune.
Her brother Ben coached her for this Olympics. Torah suffered a series of concussions in January and doctors ordered her to sit out weeks of practices to “rest her brain.”
She out-boarded American snowboard stars Hannah Teter and Kelly Clark with a clean run that included a “switchback 720,” a move done only by men snowboarders.
