Sochi profile #2: Snowboard superstar Torah Bright
Bright will create history in Sochi by becoming the first snowboarder to compete in three different events, including the challenging boardercross.
"I've had to channel the inner fierce Torah to get out there," she says, referring to the high-speed obstacle race in which competitors often collide with each other.
The queen of extreme, who only took up boardercross last season, needed to rely on other competitors pulling out of the event to gain a place in the Olympic field.
But she likes to live dangerously, having snatched gold in the half-pipe in Vancouver four years ago on her final run after crashing out earlier.
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The three-time Olympian has turned up to Sochi in a feisty mood, sparking a controversy over the quality of the slopestyle course, where she will compete on Sunday.
But unlike in Vancouver, she has nothing to prove this time - not to herself, not to the Olympic fraternity, not to Australian sports fans. And that makes her dangerous.
"Coming in to the last Olympics, I really wanted to win for the first time and it wasn't necessarily for myself," she says.
"I wanted to win for my country, for my sponsors and my family."
"I call it gold fever now and this time I want to stay away from gold fever ... I'll be having fun and playing around."
Bright, who left her Cooma home in the Snowy Mountains as a 13-year-old to take on the world, shrugs off suggestions she may be spreading herself too thin by competing in too many events.
"This is my plan: I'll have an extra big bowl of Weet Bix in the morning," she says.
After a mixed season, she comes into the Games having qualified eighth in her half-pipe pet event and 15th in slopestyle.
But as her 123,000 Twitter fans know, Bright's bag of edgy tricks can beat anyone on her day, including half-pipe world No. 1 American Kelly Clarke, who had to be satisfied with bronze in Vancouver.
You can be sure that despite her "girls just wanna have fun approach", the fire is still ablaze in the Bright belly.
"I would love to bring home some more hardware for you guys," she says.
Like Neil Young, she knows it's always better to burn out than to fade away.