Thursday, January 19, 2012

Sarah burke

  • Sarah Burke, a top Canadian freestyle skier, died Thursday in Salt Lake City, nine days after crashing and striking her head during a training session within a 22-foot halfpipe in Park City, Utah. She was 29.
  • (New York Times)
  • 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 for her success on the slopes.
  • (San Jose Mercury News)
  • Canadian freestyle skier Sarah Burke died Thursday after she crashed on a training run last week, People reports. She was 29. Burke had been in a coma since her Jan.
  • (YAHOO!)
  • Canadian freestyle skier Sarah Burke tragically passed away on Thursday at the age of 29 after suffering traumatic injuries from a ski crash in Utah. Burke suffered the injury on Jan. 10 while training at Park City Mountain Resort.
  • (International Business Times)
  • Canadian freestyle skier Sarah Burke was an Olympic gold-medal hopeful, a groundbreaker in her sport and a wife looking forward to a bright future when she died from injuries sustained in a fall.
  • (News1130.com)
  • Its been a week since star freeskier Sarah Burke took a nasty spill during a training run on the superpipe at Park City Mountain Resort in Park City, Utah. Unfortunately, her status remains uncertain.
  • (Bleacherreport.com)
  • SALT LAKE CITY—The agent and publicist for Canadian freestyle skier Sarah Burke were teary-eyed at a hospital Monday as they tried to explain the lack of any prognosis report for the Olympic favourite. Burke, 29, was seriously injured Jan.
  • (Toronto Star)
  • (Reuters) - Doctors said on Friday that it was too early to tell the prognosis for top Canadian freestyle skier Sarah Burke who was in critical condition at a Salt Lake City hospital after a fall.
  • (Reuters)
  • Our action sports world is again in shock. One of freestyle skiings top women, Sarah Burke, remains in critical condition after a fall while training in Park City a few days ago. As pro snowboarders, skiers, etc., we all know that what we do is risky.
  • (ESPN)
  • Her death stings, because it is unfair, because Sarah Burke was too young and too smart and too pretty and too warm and too well-liked and too remarkable, as an athlete, to leave us so soon.
  • (Nationalpost.com)

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