Sarah Burke

[Χρήστος Λάππας 25,410]

http://www.powdermag.com/stories/sarah-bur...jured-in-crash/

[Yota 472]

Μακάρι να μην είναι κάτι πολύ σοβαρό και να συνέλθει γρήγορα και πλήρως η κοπέλα!

[kantoniou 333]

Sarah Burke dies at 29

 

http://espn.go.com/action/freeskiing/story...s-suffered-utah

 

Πολυ κριμα... :Just Kidding:

[captainhook3 680]

Κρίμα......

[madskier 2,767]

Και ολα αυτα σε μια ανυποπτη στιγμη,στην προπονηση...

κριμα ,,,,,

 

Και εδω καποιες λεπτομερειες

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/7002169...uries.html?pg=1

Edited January 20, 2012 by madskier

[kaps 2,736]

Tετοιες ειδησεις ακουμε..... και μετα πιστευουν καποιοι οτι υπαρχει υψιστο ον καπου εκει πανω.......

 

Κριμα πολυ κριμα......

[Melo 36]

Tετοιες ειδησεις ακουμε..... και μετα πιστευουν καποιοι οτι υπαρχει υψιστο ον καπου εκει πανω.......

 

Κριμα πολυ κριμα......

 

Με την ίδια λογική όμως,το ίδιο ανύπαρκτο Ύψιστο ον που ανέφερες, εσένα σε έκανε να είσαι ο γρηγορότερος από 100.000.000 συναγωνιστές σου (την ημέρα της γέννησής σου), για να μπορείς να γράφεις την άποψή σου!!!

 

Όπως και να έχει το πράγμα και με ότι πιστεύει ο καθένας, είναι όντως ένα θλιβερό και στενάχωρο γεγονός, να χάνεται ένας νέος(α) άνθρωπος πάνω στο άθλημα που όλοι εδώ μέσα αγαπάμε !!! R.I.P

[kaps 2,736]

Με την ίδια λογική όμως,το ίδιο ανύπαρκτο Ύψιστο ον που ανέφερες, εσένα σε έκανε να είσαι ο γρηγορότερος από 100.000.000 συναγωνιστές σου (την ημέρα της γέννησής σου), για να μπορείς να γράφεις την άποψή σου!!!

 

Όπως και να έχει το πράγμα και με ότι πιστεύει ο καθένας, είναι όντως ένα θλιβερό και στενάχωρο γεγονός, να χάνεται ένας νέος(α) άνθρωπος πάνω στο άθλημα που όλοι εδώ μέσα αγαπάμε !!! R.I.P

 

Φανταζομαι οτι μπορεις καπως να το.....αποδειξεις αυτο..... :Just Kidding:

 

Πιστευω ΜΟΝΟ σε οτι Βλεπω-ακουω-μυριζω-αισθανομαι και γενικα σε οτι εχει αποδειξει η ΕΠΙΣΤΗΜΗ. Για εμενα ολες οι θρησκειες ειναι απλα ενα μεσο ελεγχου του πληθους στηριζομενες σε υπαρξιακα και ενιοτε ψυχολογικα προβληματα ή φοβιες των ανθρωπων.... Και εγω δεν ανηκω και δεν θελω να ανηκω στο πληθος. Εχω λογικη και Κριση

 

Ας μην το συζητησουμε..... ομως δεν θα βγαλει καπου. Οτι θελει πιστευει ο καθενας.....

Edited January 20, 2012 by kaps

[bujinkan 2,507]

[panpanou 335]

η Sarah Burke υπήρξε μιά χαρισματική ύπαρξη στην Γη ...

ήταν εξαιρετική σε αυτό που έκανε και παράλληλα γοητευτική και πανέξυπνη

 

 

YouTube Video ->

 

 

 

δυστυχώς, είχε την μοίρα πολλών άλλων επαγγελματιών σκιέρ που έγιναν όλοι βορά

στον αδυσώπητο ανταγωνισμό της βιομηχανίας του σκι, που μαίνεται πίσω από τα ωραία βίντεο και τις ωραίες μουσικές ...

 

είναι αυτός ακριβώς ο ανταγωνισμός που ωθεί τους αθλητές όλο και πιο πολύ στα άκρα και τέλος τους κάνει αναλώσιμους ...

πεθαίνουν και σε λίγο ξεφυτρώνουν 10 καινούργια υποψήφια θύματα ... στην υπηρεσία του εμπορίου

 

ο θάνατος της, ας μας βάλει όλους σε σκέψεις ... ΕΙΝΑΙ ΑΡΑΓΕΣ ΑΥΤΟ ΤΟ ΝΟΗΜΑ ΤΟΥ ΣΚΙ ;;;;;

χρειαζόταν να πεθάνει; χρειαζόταν το σπορ της να φτάνει σε τέτοια άκρα που να γίνεται επικίνδυνο για ΤΗΝ ΖΩΗ της ;

χρειαζόταν τόσος πόνος για τους δικούς της ανθρώπους;

 

 

η Βurke υπέστη κάταγμα στις εγκάρσιες αποφύσεις των αυχενικών σπονδύλων με αποτέλεσμα ρήξη της σπονδυλικής αρτηρίας,

η οποία (μαζί με τις καρωτίδες) είναι το βασικό μέσον αιμάτωσης του εγκεφάλου.

Εξ αιτίας αυτής της ρήξης ο εγκέφαλος της έμεινε χωρίς οξυγόνο με επακόλουθο την καρδιακή ανακοπή που επιδείνωσε την εγκεφαλική ανοξία, αφού η καρδιά (= αντλία) ακινητοποιήθηκε και σταμάτησε να στέλνει αίμα στο σώμα ...

 

στο μυαλό μου έρχεται, η στατιστική που είχαμε συζητήσει στο παρελθόν, σχετικά με τη χρήση του κράνους στο σκι ...

το κράνος προστατεύει μεν από τις εγκεφαλικές κακώσεις ΑΛΛΑ φαίνεται ότι με την χρήση του

αυξάνεται η πιθανότητα κακώσεων στον αυχένα ... (δείτε εδώ ... στο discussion του άρθρου ...)

χωρίς βέβαια αυτό να σημαίνει ότι δεν συνιστάται η χρήση του ...

 

ας το έχουμε στο μυαλό, ότι το καλύτερο μέσο πρόληψης μιας σοβαρής ζημιάς είναι ο πλήρης έλεγχος του σκι μας και

η μη έκθεση μας σε ανεξέλεγκτες καταστάσεις (καταστάσεις που "δεν τις έχουμε" ... για να το πω αλλιώς ...)

 

 

 

όσοι ενδιαφέρεσθε κατεβάστε από εδώ το αρχείο με αυτή την πρόσφατη (2005) μελέτη που δημοσιεύτηκε στο πολύ έγκυρο ιατρικό περιοδικό British Medical Journal (270 Kb)

 

 

 

 

Πιστευω ΜΟΝΟ σε οτι Βλεπω-ακουω-μυριζω-αισθανομαι και γενικα σε οτι εχει αποδειξει η ΕΠΙΣΤΗΜΗ.

δεν ξέρω αν - έχεις πάει στην Κατμαντού;

αν όχι, θέλω να μου πεις αν υπάρχει, εφόσον (αν δεν έχεις πάει), δεν την έχεις δει = δεν είναι προιόν των αισθήσεων σου ....

 

θέλω να πω ότι η εμπειριοκρατία την οποία ασπάζεσαι, δεν είναι ασφαλής τρόπος να πορευτεί κάποιος στο σύμπαν ....

 

Εχω λογικη και Κριση

παίζεται

η Λογική δεν εξηγεί πολλά πράγματα ... πχ την υφή και την συμπεριφορά του φωτός ...

 

ή την σοφιστεία που λέγαμε στο μάθημα της Λογικής στο σχολείο:

 

o Θεός είναι παντοδύναμος

άμα ο Θεός είναι παντοδύναμος, μπορεί να φτιάξει μιά τόσο μεγάλη πέτρα που να μην μπορεί να την σηκώσει ;;;; !!!!

 

θέλω να πω ότι στο δικό μου το μυαλό η λογική και η κρίση δεν αρκούν

κάτι λείπει ....

Edited January 20, 2012 by panpanou

[TEOXALANDRI 239]

Πάνο +100000000%

 

Αυτό με τοn πρωταθλητισμό το έζησα μικρός (μέχρι τα 16 μου.... σε άλλο άθλημα βέβαια) και ευτυχώς πρόλαβα και τα παράτησα εγκαίρως... για ν'ανέβω στο βουνό... :Batting Eyelashes:

 

Βλέπω τώρα πρώην συναθλητές/τριες μου και κυριολεκτικά δεν αναγνωρίζονται τουλάχιστον σωματικά... Για να μην πούμε για την εφηβεία που δεν έζηασαν κλπ κλπ κλπ...

 

Too much fucking drugs...

 

She's just a girl you want... όντως...

 

R.I.P.

[Χρήστος Μ. 4,192]

Αυτό που έπαθε η burke ήταν και ατυχία . Παιδία έχετε δει ποτε τι κάνει για παράδειγμα ένας αθλητής της ενόργανης , στο άλμα ή στο μονόζυγο; Είναι δέκα φορές πιο επικύνδυνα πράγματα από τα aerials στο half pipe και είναι "παράδοση" που ξεκινά χιλιάδες χρόνια πριν (πχ. ταυροκαθαψια) και όμως βγάλαμε ολυμπιονίκες και στείλαμε κόσμο στα γυμναστήρια (άλλο αν εκεί μετά τα σκατώσαμε..)Το αν άξιζε ή οχι τελικά να ασχοληθεί με το σπορ είναι ζήτημα οπτικής γωνίας. Κάθε ένας από αυτους τους αθλητές είτε είναι ένας ορειβάτης που χάθηκε, είτε ένας χιονοδρόμος που σκοτώθηκε, είτε ένας αναριχητής κτλ θα μπορούσε κάποιο μύνημα να μεταφέρει ή να κάνει μια προσωπική αναζήτηση έξω από τα δικά μας καθιερωμένα, ενώ ταυτόχρονα να κερδίζει χορηγίες από την βιομηχανία του αθλητισμού για να το καταφέρει.

 

Η αλήθεια είναι οτι τελευταία κάτι παίζει με τους pro-σκιερς και φεύγουν ένας-ένας. Στην αρχή και εγώ αυτό σκεφτηκα, κι άλλος !? το παράκαναν , μαζεύτε τους.. Αλλά ...

[agavalas 1,000]

R.i.p.

[madskier 2,767]

Πανο διαβασα το πολυ ενδιαφερον αρθρο και ρωταω:

Υπαρχει καποιο προστατευτικο του αυχενα που να εμποδιζει

το σοβαρο τραυματισμο της περιοχης αυτης,ταυτογχρονα με

τη χρηση κρανους???

Στην αναλογη συζητηση για την αφαιρεση καρτων,το 2008

που οδηγηθηκε σε χρηση η οχι κρανους ο Fidelio ειχε αναφερθει

στο impact που δημιουργειται στον αυχενα απο προσκρουση στο

σκληρο υποστρωμα του half pipe-δυστυχως βγηκε αληθινος..

[Χρήστος Μ. 4,192]

Madskier χονδρικά. Οτιδήποτε πρόσθετο φοράει ο αθλητής για να προστατέψει το σώμα του από τις πτώσεις δεν εξαλήφει την ενέργεια , απλώς την μεταφέρει κάπου αλλού. (αρχή διατήρησης της ενέργειας). Ετσι λοιπον ένα τέτοιο πρόσθετο αξεσουαρ μπορεί να προστατεύσει την Α επίμαχη περιοχή από την ενέργεια πρόσκρουσης , αλλά αυτή θα διοχετευθεί κάπου άλλου στο σώμα μας. Αναφέρομαι βέβαια σε αξεσουαρ που περιορίζουν το εύρος κίνησης των αρθρώσεων ! Το σώμα από μόνο του είναι εφοδιασμένο με μηχανισμούς προστασίας από τέτοιους κινδύνους και καλύτερο θα ήταν να το εκπαιδεύσουμε καλύτερα για να μπορεί να μας προστατέψει. Αναφέρομαι πάντα στην αθλητική προσπάθεια, όχι πχ την περιοχή ενός εργοταξιου - έχει διαφορά. Ωστόσο ορισμένες φορές η άτυχη στιγμή σου χτυπά την πόρτα και τότε..

 

Είναι λίγο χαοτικό το ζήτημα γιατί εδω μιλάμε για αθλητική προσπάθεια που εξ ορισμού οι αθλητές αυτοί κάνουν παρακινδυνευμένα πράγματα. Πιθανόν η Burke AN δεν φορούσε κράνος να πεθαινε απο εγκεφαλική αιμοραγία από το χτύπημα και όχι απο ρήξη αυχένα. Το terrain του half pipe είναι τόσο σκληρό όσο το τσιμέντο περίπου. Πρέπει να φοράνε κράνος γιατί είναι πιο πιθανή μια διάσειση , παρά αυτό που έπαθε η σκιερ.

 

Κατε 'με (αλλά και σύμφωνα με την πρόληψη τραυματισμών στα σπορ )ΔΕΝ πρέπει να περιορίζεται ο αυχένας και η κάθε άρθρωση γιατί τότε η κινηση δεν χαρακτηρίζεται από ομαλή διαχείρηση της κινητικής ενέργειας.

[madskier 2,767]

Fidelio καταλαβαινω το σκεπτικο σου και δεν μπορω να πω οτι

δε συμφωνω.Αν η προληψη ειναι η βαση για ολα , καταληγουμε

στο οτι αυτου του ειδους οι τραυματισμοι ειναι 'η κακια

στιγμη'?Συμφωνα με τους παροντες στο pipe,η πτωση της δεν ηταν

κατι σπανιο,τετοιου ειδους πτωσεις συμβαινουν συχνα αλλα δεν εχουν

αναφερθει και θανατοι.Το να γινει ομως καταγμα σπονδυλου(εξου και

η ρηξη της σπονδυλικης αρτηριας) μηπως δεν ειναι και τοσο σπανιο??

οκ το ξερω οτι ειναι φαυλος κυκλος αλλα αναρωτιεμαι γιατι και οι σκιερ ,οπως οι πιο

πολλοι απο εμας δε θα μπορουσαν να εχουν καποιον αναλογο τραυματισμο??

 

Ενδιαφερον site για οποιον θελει http://www.ski-injury.com/intro

 

Και μια μελετη του 2010 ,με 10 χρονια διαρκεια http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/earl...aje.kwq039.full

Edited January 23, 2012 by madskier

[madskier 2,767]

One light will not go out

 

Freeskier Sarah Burke lifted everyone around her. Even in death, that hasn't changed.

 

 

Updated: June 1, 2012, 2:44 PM ETBy Eli Saslow | ESPN The Magazine

 

 

 

Sarah Burke Tribute

 

A tribute to women's freeskiing pioneer Sarah Burke at Winter X Games 2012.Tags: actionsports, skiing, Sarah Burke, Winter X Games, Tribute

 

This story appears in the June 11 Women in Sports issue of ESPN The Magazine. Subscribe today!

SHE WAS ALWAYS the person who brought everyone else together -- the magnet, friends called her -- so they traveled from across the world to see Sarah Burke one final time. High school classmates came from the East Coast, and family members flew in from Canada. Professional athletes traveled from Norway, Sweden and Japan. They arrived en masse at a hospital in Park City, Utah, spilling from Burke'sroom into the general waiting area and the hallways until, finally, doctors found a conference room big enough to accommodate them.

 

For nine terrible days in January, they sat there, waited and prayed. They rehashed questions that made no sense.

 

How could they remain hopeful when the most optimistic among them was lying unresponsive in the other room?

 

How had skiing's most daring athlete suffered a brain hemorrhage while practicing an utterly routine trick?

 

Why now, just months after she had engineered her sport's inclusion in the 2014 Winter Olympics and had become, at long last, a gold medal favorite?

 

Cole Barash/RoxySarah Burke had visions of the podium in women's ski halfpipe and slopestyle at the 2014 Olympics.

Mostly, they spent the long hours in the conference room trying to reconcile the Sarah Burke on life support with the one they had known for 29 years, the one who had lived in perpetual motion and supported everyone else. This was a woman who had visited the troops in Iraq, hit a 75-foot ski jump in the Canadian backcountry, posed for a magazine cover and designed a jacket for a sponsor in Europe -- all during the course of one typical month. This was the first woman to land a 720, a 900 and a 1080 in competition. This was a skier who had won four gold medals at the X Games; a friend who dropped everything to make a Jay-Z concert in London; a businesswoman who signed deals with nearly a dozen companies; and a prankster who launched a website, Scarah.com, to post videos of herself jumping out from behind doors to surprise other skiers.

 

 

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Hubert KangAt Burke's memorial, one candle was used to light hundreds more, including one held by her mother, Jan Phelan.

"She did everything to the fullest all the time," says her husband, Rory Bushfield. "The joke was always that there had to be, like, four or five Sarahs."

 

And now there was this one, in the hospital. Hemorrhaging prevented oxygen and blood from reaching her brain, resulting in a coma. Doctors tried emergency surgery to no avail. Tests showed that her heart was still beating, but her brain was damaged beyond repair. She was gone.

 

As Burke's family members prepared to say their final goodbyes, the hospital staff came with more bad news. Burke was a Canadian citizen who had been skiing in the U.S. without health insurance because her national ski team policy covered her only during competitions and some practices. Her hospital bills would total hundreds of thousands of dollars. Nobody in her family could afford to pay them. Her agent, Michael Spencer, retreated to the conference room in grief and decided to take up a collection. Spencer also wanted to raise money to start a foundation on her behalf. He joined GiveForward.com and designed a page for Burke on which anyone with an Internet connection could donate money and post a tribute. "Sarah did so much for females and winter sports during her time with us," Spencer wrote at the top of the page. "Now we are asking for your help."

 

Burke, who wanted her organs to be donated, had always been a giver herself. She had started at least one tradition that had spread among her friends. At the end of the night, she liked to ask a bartender to change a few $20 bills into quarters and dimes. Then she would walk home tossing the change along her path, building a trail of coins that stretched for a mile or more. She believed that joy and generosity could be contagious. "Think of how happy it will make people to find these in the morning!" she sometimes said.

 

Maybe now some of those coins would circle back, Spencer thought. On Jan. 19, a few hours before Burke died, he hit a button on his laptop to make the fundraising site public. He hoped that a few hundred people would post tributes. He wanted to raise $15,000.

 

"I had no idea what could happen or who might see it," he says, because nothing in his life had prepared him for what would come next.

"Thank you for the oohs and ahhs."

Carolyn, $50

"May we all have the courage

to stare fear in the face."

Anonymous, $75

SHE STARTED SKIING just after she turned 5, the daughter of two artists in Midland, Ontario, who saved their money for weekend lift tickets. She became a good moguls skier, but she preferred to careen through the woods and build jumps. Freestyle skiing was just beginning to take off in terrain parks and halfpipes around the world, and Burke wanted to try it. Midway through high school, she signed up for a big air competition at the Canadian Nationals.

 

She arrived in Quebec City, 10 hours from her home, only to find out that no other junior girls had signed up to compete. There were also no registered women and no junior boys. Officials encouraged her to drive back to Midland, but instead, Burke decided to compete against 23 men -- most of them already professionals, some at least twice her age, and a few couldn't help but chuckle at the teenage girl with a toothy smile, blond pigtails and old lift tickets stuck to the zippers of her bulky jacket.

 

 

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Hubert KangBurke and her husband Rory Bushfield were constant thrill-seekers.

She finished fourth.

 

For the next several years, Burke divided her time between building her skills and building up the competition. She graduated from high school and moved into a group house in Mammoth, Calif., where she kept the water bill affordable by showering only a few times each week, saving her money to travel to freestyle competitions around the world. Other women were stronger or more athletic, but nobody else had her body control and sense of ease in the air. "Most people get scared up there, but she was totally at peace," says her coach, Trennon Paynter.

 

Burke won most events she entered. Her audacity in the backcountry made her a cult star in ski movies; her flirtatious smile and beach-blond hair led FHM to name her to its list of the 100 sexiest women. She signed contracts with Salomon, Smith, Roxy, Monster and Helly Hansen, and soon the water bill didn't seem to matter.

 

Meanwhile, as she emerged as one of skiing's few mainstream stars, she scoured ski chat rooms on the Internet and randomly messaged any girl who seemed interested in freestyle, knowing the sport's credibility depended on having a deep and talented field. She launched a series of weekend halfpipe clinics for women and became a counselor at an elite freestyle summer camp, sharing her tricks in the offseason with women who tried to beat her in the winter. "She could have been scared or resentful about losing her place at the top, but instead, she taught us everything she could," says Roz Groenewoud, a student at those camps and the reigning gold medalist in the X Games. "She was carrying women's skiing on her shoulders."

 

Burke helped start a movement to force the Dew Tour to include women's skiing, and she begged her sponsors to kick in for equal prize money when one contest paid $20,000 to men's winners and $2,000 to women's. She traveled to the X Games four times to perform an exhibition while the men warmed up, because the event didn't yet offer a competition for women. "It was a constant frustration, and sometimes you could see the tears fog up her goggles," says Jessica Vander Kooij, a close friend from Midland. "But then she'd take off the goggles and be smiling, like, 'Okay. I'm fine.'"

 

She was always fine -- that was her brand of toughness. Mangled thumb? Fine. She'd have surgery and make it back to the hill three hours later, even if she was still vomiting from the anesthesia. Dislocated shoulder? Fine. Broken hands, busted ribs, torn-up knees, knocked unconscious? Fine. All fine. Broken back? Fine -- and, just to prove it, why not throw up a casual peace sign to the crowd at the 2009 X Games as paramedics carted her down the mountain?

 

Once, while filming a ski movie in the Canadian backcountry, Burke's friend Mike Douglas suggested building a different jump for women. The jump for the men was a monster, a skyscraper of snow built in avalanche country that required a flight of 90 feet to reach the landing area. Naturally, Burke wanted to try it, but the physics didn't add up; it was too much speed and air for someone who weighed 125 pounds.

 

"Please let me build you something a little more reasonable," Douglas said.

 

"No way," Burke said.

 

They fought for 30 minutes, but there was no winning once Burke had made up her mind. She flew off the jump at full speed, lost control in the air and barely reached the landing area. "It wasn't really a crash so much as an all-out explosion," Douglas says. Skis and boots and goggles scattered across the mountain. Five other athletes hurried downhill to check on her. Douglas dug into his pocket for a cellphone, prepared to call 911.

 

"I'm fine," Burke said, standing up, waving them off. Then she hiked back up the hill and hit the jump again.

"Sarah is my 6-year-old daughter's role model,

and I could not be more proud of her choice."

Anonymous, $1,000

"She's inspired me to start jumping cliffs and

experience a new way of skiing. Thank you!"

Sylvie, $50

 

 

 

Remembering Sarah Burke

 

A celebration of life for Sarah Burke was held this spring in Whistler, BC. Story

• Public gathering: Photo gallery

• Remembering Sarah: ZOOM gallery

SHE FOUND ADVENTURE everywhere, but mostly she found it through love. Burke met Bushfield, another professional skier, at summer camp when she was 14, and he spent the next seven years chasing her around the world. He finally persuaded her to go on an informal date in Oregon in 2003, suggesting only that she wear comfortable shoes. Off they went through the woods to the Deschutes River, crossing the rapids in the most dangerous spots, hopping from one slippery rock to the next, soaking their pants to the knee. "It was intense and awesome," Bushfield says, and it became the blueprint for their relationship: Be spontaneous. Take risks. Make every experience memorable.

 

Easter wasn't just an egg hunt but a scavenger course decoded by treasure maps. New Year's Eve parties felt tired, so they invited friends to wear wet suits and jump into a frozen river at midnight with miniature bottles of champagne. Even the most remote hikes in British Columbia became routine, so they bought night-vision goggles and started climbing mountains in the darkness.

 

Bushfield traveled everywhere with climbing gear and a rope in his backpack, and he made it a daily mission to entertain Burke by doing backflips off bridges or jumping off buildings. They surfed together in Costa Rica, backpacked in Europe and mountain-biked in Brazil. They bought a house near the ski area in Whistler, British Columbia, remodeled it themselves and hosted ax-throwing tournaments in the backyard. Bushfield learned how to fly and bought a plane so they could buzz around the mountains and chase bears along the ridgelines.

 

He proposed on Christmas Eve in 2009, using a shovel to write a message in fresh powder on a remote mountain and then flying Burke there the next morning. "Marry me Sarah!" he wrote, because it never seemed like a question.

"She lived to the fullest, not a moment wasted.

She was happy. How many of us can say that?"

ALEX, $50

"While we rarely see snow in my neck of the woods,

I had a chance to watch her after randomly

channel surfing one day. She was awesome!"

CJ, $500

 

THERE WAS SO much she still wanted to do: launch a training and rehabilitation clinic, raise kids, become a broadcaster, win the Olympics. For Paynter, her coach, the challenge was always to limit her focus. "She had a hard time saying no," he says. "She did way too much."

 

When the International Olympic Committee announced last summer that it would add both ski halfpipe and slopestyle to the 2014 Games in Sochi, Russia, Paynter suggested that Burke hire a scheduler to help manage her time. She had spent the past two years traveling to meetings and pushing for the sport's inclusion in Sochi, and everything about the Olympics excited her now. She liked filling out the IOC paperwork. She looked forward to the drug tests; they made her feel like a real athlete, she told friends. Still, she had always succeeded her way and trained on her own schedule, and this time would be no different.

 

Burke spent the winter traveling to charity events and surf trips. A week into January, she left for a three-day training camp in Park City, where Monster, her energy-drink sponsor, had rented out a 22-foot halfpipe that she had skied in dozens of times. The plan in Utah was simply to stick with what she knew. So on the afternoon of Jan. 10, she soared off the bottom of the halfpipe and twisted into a flat spin 540, one and a half sideways rotations, a standard trick she had mastered in her teens. She had landed it thousands of times. She had fallen thousands of times. It never had mattered.

 

 

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Hubert KangBushfield built this memorial bench near his and Burke's home in Whistler, British Columbia.

This time she fell. She overrotated on the landing, whiplashed forward and banged her head. It was an unremarkable crash, and for about 10 seconds nobody else in the pipe seemed to notice. But then it had been 15 seconds, and still she didn't answer when another skier called her name, sending half a dozen athletes rushing to her side. Then it was two minutes, and emergency responders who had hurried to the scene began to notice signs of cardiac arrest. Then it was five minutes, and paramedics radioed for a helicopter.

 

In the chaos that followed, Bushfield received a call on his cell. He answered while sitting inside the lodge at Whistler, taking a break from his own day on the mountain. "I heard, 'It's bad news about Sarah,' and then the whole thing is just a fog," Bushfield says. He scrambled to find a flight to Utah that afternoon. When he arrived, the same husband who always had resisted routine spent nine days inside a red-brick building, never once leaving, repeating daily conversation with doctors even if their answers rarely changed.

 

They said Burke had torn her vertebral artery, which helps supply blood to the brain stem. They said she wasn't waking up. They said the odds of this exact accident seemed like one in a million.

 

"A fluke," Spencer says. "A moment so bad and so unexplainable it makes you wonder if anything good can happen again."

 

Then, two days after Burke died, something did. Spencer checked the fundraising website he had created to help cover Burke's medical expenses and saw that more than 250 people had donated and posted tributes in the first three hours. More than 3,000 donated in the first three days. The money came from 22 countries, and the tributes were posted in Japanese, German, Italian, English and French. A ski bum explained that he was jobless and therefore could give only $10. A sushi restaurant in Canada held its own fundraiser and pitched in $1,000. Billie Jean King, Dwyane Wade and Lil Wayne all offered tributes. A flood of traffic crashed GiveForward.com, so people made donations through two other websites.

 

"Here was every person who knew about her suddenly giving back at once," says Jan Phelan, her mother.

 

"We couldn't believe how many people she'd reached," Bushfield says.

 

"It was almost hard to keep track," Spencer says. So less than a week after Burke's death, he navigated through the Internet and calculated the total.

 

His grassroots project had raised more than $300,000.

"I am so sad to lose her but so grateful for her life."

Mackenzie, $100

"You are paying her an honor every time you ski."

Randy, $100

 

THE MONEY MORE than covered medical expenses, with her sponsors and Canadian ski team offering to pitch in, so Burke's family decided to use some of it for a memorial in April. Bushfield spent a month obsessing over the details, mostly because it gave him something to do. Ever since Burke's death, he had tried to re-create the feeling of closeness to her. He took long bike rides to mountains they had visited together, only to experience a terrible sense of loneliness once he arrived. He tried to lose himself in their adventures, like surfing in Los Angeles or street skiing in Australia, but what was the point without Burke waiting to hear his stories? "The best part of every experience was coming home and laughing about it with her," he says. Instead, now he came home to her meticulously organized clothes still hanging in the closet and her two iPhones still sitting on the dresser drawer -- vestiges he couldn't bear to see but couldn't bring himself to give away.

 

"It sounds weird, but it feels comforting to know those old text messages and pictures are still right there," he says. "It's like parts of her still exist."

 

He tried to gather those parts at the memorial in Whistler. More than 1,000 skiers, friends and fans showed up for a Burke-style event: a whirlwind three-day party that included a ceremony at a glacial lake, another in a halfpipe and a midnight dance-off at a restaurant.

 

On the last night, Bushfield and his family hosted a public ceremony in Whistler's downtown square. Some people arrived with stickers that read "Celebrate Sarah," and others wore replica necklaces of Burke's snowflake tattoo. A sign posted over a small stage read: "One light will not go out if it lights 1,000 more," and Bushfield walked through the crowd to distribute hundreds of candles.

 

The last speakers stepped off the stage at 10:15 p.m., and tradition called for a final moment of silence.

 

"Let's make it a moment of noise," Bushfield said.

 

The crowd counted to three and then shouted in unison, a cacophony of grief and rage and gratitude. A group of close friends went to Burke's favorite bar, drank her favorite champagne and danced to her favorite songs. They talked about building a foundation in Burke's name that would help support women skiers. Maybe, they agreed, joy and generosity really could be contagious.

 

Then, just before last call, some of them walked up to the bartender and changed $20 bills into fistfuls of coins. When the sun came up the next morning over Whistler, the cobblestone streets were dotted with silver and bronze.

 

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Sarah Burke Added to Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame

 

Sarah Burke Added to Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame

 

From The Globe and Mail.

Canada Olympic Park. Calgary. Sarah Burke, Wrestler Daniel Igali, Nordic skier Beckie Scott, Freestyle skier Jean-Luc Brassard, the 2010 Olympic men’s hockey team, the 2006 women’s hockey team, + synchronized swim coach Julie Sauve are being inducted into the 2012 Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame.

Sarah is being added because she worked tirelessly to get ski superpipe into the Olympics. Her wish was finally granted for the 2014 Games in Sochi, Russia. Burke will join 411 members in the Canadian Olympic hall of Fame located at Calgary’s Olympic Park

 

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Sarah Burke was so much more than just a successful athlete; She was a leader in the sport community, a respected media personality, and an action sports icon. She was also an activist and a philanthropist, who devoted much of her life to helping others.

 

Whether it was running marathons to raise money for St. Judes Childrens hospital, traveling to work with the Women's Sport Foundation, or coachi

ng young skiers on the glaciers in the summertime, Sarah's spirit of generosity, and desire to help those in need, was a defining aspect of her life.

 

The Sarah Burke Foundation is committed to the altruistic ideals embodied by Sarah's life and her actions. The foundation will preserve Sarah's goodwill and her actions, by supporting and inspiring current and future generations. All support will allow us to carry on Sarah’s spirit and legacy by supporting others in sport and future generations"

 

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Remembering Sarah Burke, two years after her passing

 

January 19th, 2014 by Freeskier Magazine

Note: The following is an excerpt from FREESKIER’s Sarah Burke Remembrance issue. Sarah passed away on January 19, 2012, from injuries sustained in a skiing accident on January 10 of that same year. Today, we continue to #celebratesarah; visit http://sarahburkefoundation.com/ for information on how you can honor Sarah’s legacy.

On January 19, 2012, the skiing world changed in an abrupt and tragic way when Sarah Burke—freeskiing’s queen and inspiration to countless skiers—passed away after succumbing to injuries suffered during a routine training session at Park City. Sarah’s passing dealt a crushing blow to the freeskiing community. The industry lost a guiding light in Sarah, a beautiful reflection of what a professional skier—and person—could be.

Sarah was there in freeskiing’s ragtag beginning, competing at big airs and US Opens of yore. She was the principal figure in getting the women’s halfpipe event added to the X Games—and then in getting women’s slopestyle included five years later. Never content with “good enough,” she led by example, building her legacy with X Games medals, an FIS Globe, an ESPY, Dew Tour wins, US Open titles, Euro Open victories, multiple film segments, SOTY awards… The list goes on and on and is a testament to her remarkable talent.

But our idols are not measured in wins and trophies. Yes, Sarah was a champion, but she was so much more than a list of achievements. She was a kind soul, warming any room she entered. She was a generous veteran, mentoring the next generation of skiers. She was a graceful competitor, experiencing victory and defeat with equal poise. She was feisty, attacking each day with extraordinary zest and vigor. She was beautiful, intoxicating everyone who caught a glimpse of her. In essence, she was the best of us. An excellent teacher, a lofty role model, a boisterous supporter, and the best friend anyone could have asked for. The smile she flashed so often lured us in, and we never wanted to let go—even now, when tragedy has taken her from us.

Sarah’s legacy and inspiration will never fade. She will live on. In our hearts and our memories. At the top of mountains and the bottom of halfpipes, we will think of her and smile.

In what little way we can, we pay reverence to you, Sarah. Thank you for all you’ve given us.

—Shay Williams, former managing editor, FREESKIER magazine