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Sarah Burke's death cuts a deep scar in the sport of freestyle skiing

via Complex 'Nine days ago Sarah Burke hit her head at the base of a superpipe at Park City Ski Resort in Utah during training; she'd been in a coma. Canada's Sarah Burke celebrates after winning the ladies' halfpipe freestyle FIS World Cup Grand Finals 2008 in Chiesa Valmalenco in this March 12, 2008 file [...]

Sarah Burke: Too young, too smart, to go that way

By AP SALT LAKE CITY — Canadian freestyle skier Sarah Burke's agent and her publicist were teary-eyed at a hospital Monday as they tried to explain the lack of any prognosis report for the Olympic favorite. Burke, 29, was seriously injured Jan. Burke had been comatose and in critical condition since her fall Jan. 10, [...]