Bright and Kokubo Win Halfpipe World Cup in Saas-F...
Kevin Pearce
Photos: © FIS-Florian Ruth
Australia's Torah Bright and the Japan's Kazuhiro Kokubo have won the second Halfpipe Competition of the LG Snowboard FIS World Cup 2009/2010 against the world elite of the freestyle talents. Kokubo was on fire in the perfect shaped super pipe of Saas-Fee's (SUI) freestyle park Allalin. With a clean first run and spectacular jumps he claimed the victory ahead of Mathieu Crepel (FRA) and Peetu Piiroinen (FIN). On the ladies side Torah Bright dominated on the sunny day with two flawless runs and left Xuetong Cai (CHN) and Sophie Rodriguez (FRA) behind.
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