Canadian freestyle skier Sarah Burke dead at 29

[Nica_In_Love 98]

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Sarah Burke was an X Games star with a grass-roots mentality — a daredevil superpipe skier who understood the risks inherent to her sport and the debt she owed to it.

The pioneering Canadian freestyler, who helped get superpipe accepted into the Olympics, died Thursday after a Jan. 10 crash during a training run in Park City, Utah.

Burke, who lived near Whistler, in British Columbia, was 29.

Tests revealed she sustained "irreversible damage to her brain due to lack of oxygen and blood after cardiac arrest," according to a statement released by her publicist, Nicole Wool, on behalf of the family.

A four-time Winter X Games champion, Burke crashed on the same halfpipe where snowboarder Kevin Pearce sustained a traumatic brain injury during a training accident on Dec. 31, 2009.

Full story: http://news.yahoo.com/canadian-freestyle-skier-sarah-burke-dead-29-205940644--spt.html

[canada_socks 97]

I went to highschool with her. She was a really nice person.

So sad...

[CristyH 0]

That is so sad. I have not even had a minute to read anything about how it happened, I just heard she had died.