When the first-ever Olympic women's halfpipe skiing event gets underway in Sochi next week, the family of the late freestyle skiing star Sarah Burke will be watching proudly from the stands.
Olympic snowboarders who wanted to pay tribute to fellow Olympian Sarah Burke during competition have been told they can't due to IOC rules.
They were both 29 years old when they died — Sarah Burke and Nik Zoricic. And it was hard not to cry — the athletes did, some of us did — when talking about the two Canadian skiers who died a month apart in 2012 while doing their extreme sports
It was an act of remembrance that took on special significance after Olympians realized this weekend that they would not be able to honour Sarah Burke, the Canadian freeskiing star who died two years ago. Rule 50 of the
Sarah Burke will be honoured in Ottawa Saturday as the recipient of the flag that flies over the Peace Tower. Burke fought to have freestyle skiing included as an Olympic event.