The skiing community was brokenhearted when Canadian X Games star Sarah Burke died of a brain injury in January of 2012, and on Feb. 20 they honored her memory at the Sochi Olympic Games with a beautiful tribute that
In one of the most emotional moments of the Winter Olympics, the women's freestyle skiing halfpipe medalists pointed at the sky from the podium in honor of fallen competitor Sarah Burke. Halfpipe workers, meanwhile, skied
While the International Olympic Committee clamped down on the athletes who wanted to wear helmet stickers in memory of Canadian freestyle skiing pioneer Sarah Burke, they allowed a moving tribute to her before the start of the women's freestyle skiing
The Canadian freeskier is viewed as the pioneer of the halfpipe event. She won four gold medals in superpipe at the Winter X Games, and she added a gold medal in the halfpipe at a freestyle world championship event. In January 2012, Burke passed at the
Gord Burke and Jan Phelan looked on in amazement as they watched the women of the Olympic halfpipe — the event their late daughter Sarah fought tooth and nail to bring to the Olympics — honor the fallen skier with a