MonkeyBrook
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RIP Sarah, you will be missed.
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Sarah Burke seriously injured
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Jesus... that really sucks.
Is it just me or does it seem very morbid recently around here
Is it just me or does it seem very morbid recently around here
jaja111
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This sucks. It just absolutely sucks. Seein everyone biting their fingernails with all the good vibes across the country, world even, and now this. To the half pipe in the sky Sarah, do not rest in peace, rather play hard in peace.
Just doing a sanity check here
Found this on Liftopia's facebook page, it's a link for donations to help pay for Sarah's medical bills and funeral arrangements, apparently.
They are looking for $550,000.
I can't find out any information on the organizer. If she had any kind of insurance at all, that seems like an astronomical number. further, the disclaimer at the bottom of the site shows that they don't guarantee the funds are used for the purposes advertised.
Long story short; I'd be all for donating donate something to the fund and encouraging others to do the same, but I want to make sure it's legit and not some ahole capitalizing on a crummy situation. Anyone have any knowledge on this?
https://www.wepay.com/donations/sarah-burke
Found this on Liftopia's facebook page, it's a link for donations to help pay for Sarah's medical bills and funeral arrangements, apparently.
They are looking for $550,000.
I can't find out any information on the organizer. If she had any kind of insurance at all, that seems like an astronomical number. further, the disclaimer at the bottom of the site shows that they don't guarantee the funds are used for the purposes advertised.
Long story short; I'd be all for donating donate something to the fund and encouraging others to do the same, but I want to make sure it's legit and not some ahole capitalizing on a crummy situation. Anyone have any knowledge on this?
https://www.wepay.com/donations/sarah-burke
mondeo
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It's linked on her Facebook page, and one of the coaches at Momentum who was pretty good friends with her has linked it. Looks legit. Also, she's Canadian, but all this happened in Utah. Not sure how Canadians deal with getting insurance for doing stuff in other countries, but that may explain why the number is so big.
jimmywilson69
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That is good to know that she is an organ donor. My dad received a Kidney transplate 13 years ago and lives a very healthy life now thanks to someone like her.
This is a terrible loss to her family and the sports which we all love.
Thanks, that sounds sufficient to me. Just wanted a double check, there are people out there that try to take advantage of situations like this
Someone posted this on her facebook page. Not a fan of the music particularly but some great pics of her. Bleh.
drjeff
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Life flights, 10 or so days in the ICU, likely on life support the entire time with numerous medications and machines used to keep her heart beating, multiple CAT Scans and/or MRI's and.or PET scans (measures brain activity or lack there of), atleast 1, if not a couple of neuro surgeries. The numbers can add up very quickly. If anything to somewhat of a fault, the amazing medical technologies we have in this country allowed her husband and family to be there when she passed away, when the reality is if that crash had happened and in most any other country or possibly even ski resort (as the 1/2 pipe at Park City Mountain Resort is by medical helicopter one of the shortest flights to a level 1 trauma center of any out there), she would have been pronouced dead at the mountain.
Just a sad story
SIKSKIER
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Nice article
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 for her success on the slopes.
Sarah Burke: 1982-2012
We look back at the life and career of a winter sports star.
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.
"Sarah was the one who, in a very positive way, stood in the face of adversity and asked, 'Why not?'" said Peter Judge, the CEO of Canada's freestyle team. "What she would have wanted was for her teammates and others in her sport to stand up and also say, 'Why not?' To benefit from the significant opportunities available to them, being able to compete in the Olympics and the X Games. Those were the things she wanted and cherished and fought for."
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.
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.
She said Burke's organs and tissues were donated, as the skier 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.
In Memoriam
We look back at those we've lost in the sports world in 2012.
Judge said the accident did not come on a risky trick, but rather, a simple 540-degree jump that Burke usually landed routinely.
"It was more the freak nature of how she landed," he said. "The angle of how she hit must have been exactly the right way, to create a very bizarre circumstance."
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.
Her arguments won over Olympic officials, and the discipline will debut in two years in Russia, where Burke likely would have been a favorite for the gold medal.
She was, Judge said, as committed to mentoring up-and-coming competitors and giving clinics as performing at the top levels.
"She was a kind person who was easygoing and approachable," Judge said. "There was no pretense about her."
TRAGIC SPORTS DEATHS
Remembering the many athletes sports lost way too soon.
News of Burke's death spread quickly through the action-sports world, where the Winter X Games are set to start next week in Aspen, Colo., without one of their biggest and most-beloved stars.
"She's probably one of the nicest people I've known in my life, and that's about the only thing I have to say about it," said American superpipe skier Simon Dumont, a multiple X Games medalist.
Jeremy Forster, the program director for US Freeskiing and US Snowboarding, said freeskiers would remember Burke "first, as a friend, and then as a competitor who constantly inspired them to do greater things."
"She was a leader in her sport, and it's a huge loss for the freeskiing community," Forster said.
"I am eternally indebted to Sarah for what she has done for this sport," said American superpipe skier Jen Hudak. "Every turn I ever make will be for her."
A moment of silence for Burke was observed before Canada's women's soccer team played Haiti in an Olympic qualifying match in Vancouver on Thursday night.
Burke's death is sure to re-ignite the debate over safety on the halfpipe.
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.
The sport's leaders defend the record, saying mandatory helmets and 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, so did the tricks. In 2010, snowboarding pioneer Jake Burton told The Associated Press that much of this was self-policed by athletes who knew where to draw the line.
"If the sport got to the point where halfpipe riding became really dangerous, I think riders would do something about it," Burton said. "It wouldn't be cool anymore."
His opinion is shared by many.
"From a safety perspective, it's just very difficult to really understand if there was anything that could've been done any differently to make it any safer," Judge said.
In 2009, Burke broke a vertebra in her back after landing awkwardly while competing in slopestyle at the X Games. It was her lobbying that helped get the X Games to include women's slopestyle — where riders shoot down the mountain and over "features" including bumps and rails.
It wasn't her best event, but she felt compelled to compete because she pushed for 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.
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 with AP two years ago, Burke reflected on the niche she'd carved out in the action-sports world.
"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 the next Winter Games.
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 for her success on the slopes.
Sarah Burke: 1982-2012
We look back at the life and career of a winter sports star.
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.
"Sarah was the one who, in a very positive way, stood in the face of adversity and asked, 'Why not?'" said Peter Judge, the CEO of Canada's freestyle team. "What she would have wanted was for her teammates and others in her sport to stand up and also say, 'Why not?' To benefit from the significant opportunities available to them, being able to compete in the Olympics and the X Games. Those were the things she wanted and cherished and fought for."
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.
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.
She said Burke's organs and tissues were donated, as the skier 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.
In Memoriam
We look back at those we've lost in the sports world in 2012.
Judge said the accident did not come on a risky trick, but rather, a simple 540-degree jump that Burke usually landed routinely.
"It was more the freak nature of how she landed," he said. "The angle of how she hit must have been exactly the right way, to create a very bizarre circumstance."
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.
Her arguments won over Olympic officials, and the discipline will debut in two years in Russia, where Burke likely would have been a favorite for the gold medal.
She was, Judge said, as committed to mentoring up-and-coming competitors and giving clinics as performing at the top levels.
"She was a kind person who was easygoing and approachable," Judge said. "There was no pretense about her."
TRAGIC SPORTS DEATHS
Remembering the many athletes sports lost way too soon.
News of Burke's death spread quickly through the action-sports world, where the Winter X Games are set to start next week in Aspen, Colo., without one of their biggest and most-beloved stars.
"She's probably one of the nicest people I've known in my life, and that's about the only thing I have to say about it," said American superpipe skier Simon Dumont, a multiple X Games medalist.
Jeremy Forster, the program director for US Freeskiing and US Snowboarding, said freeskiers would remember Burke "first, as a friend, and then as a competitor who constantly inspired them to do greater things."
"She was a leader in her sport, and it's a huge loss for the freeskiing community," Forster said.
"I am eternally indebted to Sarah for what she has done for this sport," said American superpipe skier Jen Hudak. "Every turn I ever make will be for her."
A moment of silence for Burke was observed before Canada's women's soccer team played Haiti in an Olympic qualifying match in Vancouver on Thursday night.
Burke's death is sure to re-ignite the debate over safety on the halfpipe.
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.
The sport's leaders defend the record, saying mandatory helmets and 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, so did the tricks. In 2010, snowboarding pioneer Jake Burton told The Associated Press that much of this was self-policed by athletes who knew where to draw the line.
"If the sport got to the point where halfpipe riding became really dangerous, I think riders would do something about it," Burton said. "It wouldn't be cool anymore."
His opinion is shared by many.
"From a safety perspective, it's just very difficult to really understand if there was anything that could've been done any differently to make it any safer," Judge said.
In 2009, Burke broke a vertebra in her back after landing awkwardly while competing in slopestyle at the X Games. It was her lobbying that helped get the X Games to include women's slopestyle — where riders shoot down the mountain and over "features" including bumps and rails.
It wasn't her best event, but she felt compelled to compete because she pushed for 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.
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 with AP two years ago, Burke reflected on the niche she'd carved out in the action-sports world.
"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 the next Winter Games.
MadPatSki
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The link has already been posted...I'll post it again. Over half a million dollars in expenses to cover by the family. Help them out.
https://www.wepay.com/donations/sarah-burke
Who is Sarah Burke???
I posted this on my blog last night:
http://madpatski.wordpress.com/2012/01/20/friday-night-video-sarah-burke/
https://www.wepay.com/donations/sarah-burke
Who is Sarah Burke???
I posted this on my blog last night:
http://madpatski.wordpress.com/2012/01/20/friday-night-video-sarah-burke/
RIP Sarah
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Wow, I am surprised giving her proffesion that she didn't have some sort of Travel Insurance or something along those lines.....god talk about compounding an already tragic event!
Not to get to far off the more important topic (Sarah losing her life), but was she married? If she had no dependents, who does the hospital go after?
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Her "estate," assuming there's no--or inadequate--insurance. I'm wondering whether her team provided coverage, as she was training with them when she was injured.
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Good point in regards to "team coverage". I know when I was in Middle School and High School, when being part of an athletic team you were covered under "Catostrophic" medical through the Maine School System or the School itself. If I recall it was near 250g's if injured while playing.
RENO
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She is married to Rory Bushfield (skier). Sometimes for people that compete in these type of sports, the insurance companies either don't want to cover you or the cost is astronomical.
twinplanx
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RIP Sarah 
Thoughts, Vibes, & Prayers to the family & those effected
Thoughts, Vibes, & Prayers to the family & those effected
bdfreetuna
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damn that videos hard to watch right now
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She was skiing at a non team sanctioned event thus their insurance won't cover it.
However, she was taking part in a event for her sponsor, Monster.
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/sports...ved+died+doing+sport+loved/6020535/story.html
However, she was taking part in a event for her sponsor, Monster.
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/sports...ved+died+doing+sport+loved/6020535/story.html
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