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发帖数: 17993 | 1 加拿大花样滑雪运动员Sarah Burke
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – Canadian freestyle skier Sarah Burke died Thursday,
nine days after crashing at the bottom of the superpipe during a training
run in Utah.
Burke, who lived near Whistler in British Columbia, was 29.
She was injured Jan. 10 while training at a personal sponsor event at the
Park City Mountain resort.
PHOTOS: Sarah Burke's career in pictures
VIDEO: Burke dies nine days after crash
Tests revealed Burke sustained "irreversible damage to her brain due to lack
of oxygen and blood after cardiac arrest," according to a statement
released by Burke's publicist.
A four-time Winter X Games champion, Burke crashed on the same halfpipe
where snowboarder Kevin Pearce suffered a traumatic brain injury during a
training accident on Dec. 31, 2009.
As a result of her fall, Burke tore her vertebral artery, which led to
severe bleeding on the brain, causing her to go into cardiac arrest on the
scene, where CPR was performed, according to the statement by publicist
Nicole Wool.
Wool said Burke's organs and tissues were donated per her wishes.
"The family expresses their heartfelt gratitude for the international
outpouring of support they have received from all the people Sarah touched,"
the statement said.
Burke was the best-known athlete in her sport and will be remembered for the
legacy she left for women in freestyle skiing.
She set the standard for skiing in the superpipe, a sister sport to the more
popular snowboarding brand that has turned Shaun White, Hannah Teter and
others into stars.
Seeing what a big role the Olympics has played in pushing the Whites of the
world from the fringes into the mainstream, Burke lobbied to add superpipe
skiing to the Olympic program, using the argument that no new infrastructure
would be needed — the pipe was already built — and the Olympics could get
twice the bang for their buck.
She won over the Olympic bigwigs, and the discipline will debut at the Sochi
Games in 2014.
Burke, who was favored to win a fifth X Games title later this month, would
have been a favorite for the gold medal in Sochi, as well. Instead, sadly,
the competitors will have to toast to her memory when they make their debut
on what will be the sport's grandest stage.
"Sarah, in many ways, defines the sport," Peter Judge, the CEO of Canada's
freestyle team, said before her death. "She's been involved since the very,
very early days as one of the first people to bring skis into the pipe. She'
s also been very dedicated in trying to define her sport but not define
herself by winning. For her, it's been about making herself the best she can
be rather than comparing herself to other people."
Burke's death continues a sad string of stories involving some of the best-
known athletes in the wintertime action-sports world. Pearce's injury — he
has since recovered and is back to riding on snow — was a jarring reminder
of the dangers posed to these athletes who often market themselves as devil-
may-care thrillseekers but know they make their living in a far more serious
, and dangerous, profession.
Burke's death also is sure to re-ignite the debate over safety on the
halfpipe.
The sport's leaders defend the record, saying mandatory helmets, air bags
used on the sides of pipes during practice and better pipe-building
technology has made this a safer sport, even though the walls of the pipes
have risen significantly over the past decade. They now stand at 22 feet
high.
Some of the movement to the halfpipe decades ago came because racing down
the mountain, the way they do in snowboardcross and skicross, was considered
even more dangerous — the conditions more unpredictable and the athletes
less concerned with each other's safety.
But there are few consistent, hard-and-fast guidelines when it comes to
limiting the difficulty of the tricks in the halfpipe, and as the money and
fame available in the sport grew bigger, so did the tricks. Snowboarding
pioneer Jake Burton once told The Associated Press that much of this was
self-policed by athletes who, because of the nature of a sport often
considered less competitive and more communal, knew when to draw the line.
It's an opinion shared by many.
"There are inherent risks in everything," Judge said. "Certainly, freestyle
skiing has one of the greatest safety records of almost any sport. Freestyle
is a very safe sport in large part because we had to build a safe sport in
order to get into the Olympics."
Burke's biggest accident before this came in 2009 when she broke a vertebrae
in her back after landing awkwardly while competing in slopestyle at the X
Games. It was her lobbying that helped get slopestyle — where riders shoot
down the mountain and over "features" including bumps and rails — into the
X Games after much back and forth.
It wasn't her best event, but she felt compelled to compete because of her
advocacy of it. She came to terms with her injury quickly.
"I've been doing this for long time, 11 years," she said in a 2010 interview
. "I've been very lucky with the injuries I've had. It's part of the game.
Everybody gets hurt. Looking back on it, I'd probably do the exact same
thing again."
She returned a year after that injury and kept going at the highest level,
trying the toughest tricks and winning the biggest prizes.
The tragedy brings a much-too-early end to a life of fame the skiing star
lived both inside and out of the halfpipe.
A native of Midland, Ontario, Burke won the ESPY in 2007 as female action
sports athlete of the year.
In 2010, she married another freestyle skier, Rory Bushfield, and they were
headliners in a documentary film project on the Ski Channel called Winter.
In her interview two years ago, Burke reflected on the niche she'd carved
out in the action-sports world.
"I think we're all doing this, first off, because we love it and want to be
the best," she said. "But I also think it would've been a great opportunity,
huge for myself and for skiing and for everyone, if we could've gotten into
the (Vancouver) Olympics. It's sad. I mean, I'm super lucky to be where I
am, but that would've been pretty awesome."
A little more than a year later, with Burke's prodding, her sport was voted
in for 2014.
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发帖数: 3835 | | f*******d
发帖数: 12693 | 3 可惜了，不过她死在了自己热爱的事业上。
【在 q*c 的大作中提到】
: 加拿大花样滑雪运动员Sarah Burke
: http://bcove.me/64xuag5b
: http://www.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/story/2012-01-19/freest
: SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – Canadian freestyle skier Sarah Burke died Thursday,
: nine days after crashing at the bottom of the superpipe during a training
: run in Utah.
: Burke, who lived near Whistler in British Columbia, was 29.
: She was injured Jan. 10 while training at a personal sponsor event at the
: Park City Mountain resort.
: PHOTOS: Sarah Burke's career in pictures
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发帖数: 17993 | 4 Sarah Burke is a TRUE freestyle skier in her life and in the heaven. | l******n
发帖数: 115 | 5 记得在一段录像中，她老公指着背后的山说：This is where we live and where we'
ll die.
RIP | j*******n
发帖数: 10868 | | e*******r
发帖数: 1433 | 7 rip
【在 q*c 的大作中提到】
: 加拿大花样滑雪运动员Sarah Burke
: http://bcove.me/64xuag5b
: http://www.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/story/2012-01-19/freest
: SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – Canadian freestyle skier Sarah Burke died Thursday,
: nine days after crashing at the bottom of the superpipe during a training
: run in Utah.
: Burke, who lived near Whistler in British Columbia, was 29.
: She was injured Jan. 10 while training at a personal sponsor event at the
: Park City Mountain resort.
: PHOTOS: Sarah Burke's career in pictures
| q*c
发帖数: 17993 | 8 Their life is better than most people's vacation.
【在 l******n 的大作中提到】
: 记得在一段录像中，她老公指着背后的山说：This is where we live and where we'
: ll die.
: RIP
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