Torah Jane Bright (born 27 December 1986, Cooma, New South Wales) is an Australian professional snowboarder. She is an Olympic gold medalist. She lives and trains in the area of Salt Lake City, Utah.
Silje Norendal (born 1 September 1993) is a Norwegian snowboarder. She competes in halfpipe, slopestyle and boardercross. Her local club is Kongsberg IF.
The Beatles were an English rock band that formed in Liverpool, in 1960. With John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr, they became widely regarded as the greatest and most influential act of the rock era. Rooted in skiffle and 1950s rock and roll, the Beatles later experimented with several genres, ranging from pop ballads to psychedelic and hard rock, often incorporating classical elements in innovative ways. In the early 1960s, their enormous popularity first emerged as “Beatlemania”, but as their songwriting grew in sophistication they came to be perceived as an embodiment of the ideals shared by the era’s sociocultural revolutions.
The 2012 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and commonly known as London 2012, was a major international multi-sport event celebrated in the tradition of the Olympic Games, as governed by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). It took place in London, United Kingdom and a lesser extent across the country from 25 July to 12 August 2012. The first event, the group stage in women’s football began on 25 July at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff. More than 10,000 athletes from 204 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) participated. It was officially started however on Friday 27 July 2012 at 0:00.
Yulia Viacheslavovna Lipnitskaia (Russian: Ð®Ð»Ð¸Ñ ÐÑÑеÑлавовна ÐипниÑкаÑ; born 5 June 1998) is a Russian figure skater. She is the 2014 European champion, the 2013 Grand Prix Final silver medalist, and a two-time Russian national silver medalist (2012, 2014). Competing as a junior, she won the 2012 World Junior Championships, 2011 JGP Final, and 2012 Russian Junior Championships. She holds the record for the youngest woman to win the European title and for the combined total and free skate scores on the ladies’ junior level. On February 9, 2014, co-gaining gold at the team event at the Winter Olympics in Sochi, she became the youngest non-individual gold medalist in the history of the Olympic Winter Games, improving previous Tara Lipinski’s individual record by 6 days.
Tara Kristen Lipinski (born June 10, 1982) is a retired American figure skater. At the age of 15, she won the ladies’ singles Olympic gold medal in figure skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics. Lipinski remains the youngest individual gold medalist in the history of the Olympic Winter Games (she was 15 years and 255 days old, beating legendary Sonja Henie’s 70-year-old record by two months). She is also the 1997 World Champion (at the age of 14 years, 9 months and 10 days, the youngest – by exactly 32 days – person ever to win a World Figure Skating Championship), two-time Champions Series Final Champion (1997â1998) and 1997 U.S. Champion.