Sarah Burke has Died: Skier Dies After Accident During Training in Utah

[Randle Pat McMurphy]

Sad news. Have included some of the story here, more can be found at the link provided below.


Sarah Burke Dead: Skier Dies After Accident During Training At Park City, Utah


SALT LAKE CITY -- 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.

Wool said Burke's organs and tissues were donated, as she had requested before the accident.

"The family expresses their heartfelt gratitude for the international outpouring of support they have received from all the people Sarah touched," the statement said.

A four-time Winter X Games champion, Burke will be remembered as much for the hardware she collected as the legacy she left for women in superpipe skiing, a sister sport to the more popular snowboarding brand that has turned Shaun White, Hannah Teter and others into stars.

Aware of the big role the Olympics played in pushing the Whites of the world from the fringes into the mainstream, Burke lobbied to add superpipe skiing to the Winter Games program, noting that no new infrastructure would be needed.

[T100]

Sad news.

heard she was in a coma but not much else.

RIP girl

[HAMILROCK]

Rip

[Patriots Game]

Normally I wouldn't asks for this but odd there a clip of the crash?

My coworkers son suffered a similar fate. He is in an induduced coma. His fate isn't looking good.

[Triballife]

R.i.p

[vikesfan]

RIP Sarah

[ParrotHead]

RIP, sad news

[Jahred]

terrible

rip

[Western Playboy]

Where's the YouTube of the crash?

[Patriots Game]

Originally Posted by Western Playboy

Where's the YouTube of the crash?

can't find one

[Randle Pat McMurphy]

Thankfully, there isnt a tape. She was doing some basic training stuff and had what witnesses describe as a rather innocent looking crash.

Problem was she tore the main artery where the base of the skull meets the spine. Suffered major blood loss, cardiac arrest and then became brain dead due to loss of blood supply to her brain. Freak injury and not the major head trauma others have had in bad crashes.

[Patriots Game]

Originally Posted by Randle Pat McMurphy

Thankfully, there isnt a tape. She was doing some basic training stuff and had what witnesses describe as a rather innocent looking crash.

Problem was she tore the main artery where the base of the skull meets the spine. Suffered major blood loss, cardiac arrest and then became brain dead due to loss of blood supply to her brain. Freak injury and not the major head trauma others have had in bad crashes.

Thanks. The only reason I was asking is I guess I couldn't picture what type of accident cause her to pass. RIP

[mikkii10]

it is sad that died