#AllezAUS 'Let's Go Australia'
AOCTorah Bright has won the Nippon Open snowboard halfpipe event in ALTS Bandai, Japan, and parallel giant slalom rider Jo Shaw has posted her first top ten World Cup result, finishing in eighth place in Sungwoo, South Korea. While Torino Olympic team-mates Jacqui Cooper and Dale Begg-Smith were collecting World Cup gold in Canada, Bright was winning the Nippon Open pro event for the second time.
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