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Canada mourns the loss of Sarah Burke

Sarah Burke, the Canadian skiing star who was badly injured in a training accident in Utah last week, has died after suffering a cardiac arrest, it was announced today.

The Midland, Ont. native was in an induced coma after suffering the injuries during a training run at Utah’s Park City Mountain Resort on Jan. 10. The 29-year-old died at the University of Utah Hospital at 9:22 a.m. MT.

Burke passed away peacefully with her family at her side. The family donated her organs and tissues, in accordance with her wishes, the Canadian Freestyle Ski Association said in a statement from Burke’s publicist. 

Burke was the best-known athlete in her sport and will be remembered for the legacy she left for women in freestyle skiing. She set the standard for skiing in the superpipe, a sister sport to the more popular snowboarding brand that has turned Shaun White, Hannah Teter and others into stars.

Seeing what a big role the Olympics has played in pushing the Whites of the world from the fringes into the mainstream, Burke lobbied to add superpipe skiing to the Olympic program, using the argument that no new infrastructure would be needed – the pipe was already built – and the Olympics could get twice the bang for their buck.

She won over the Olympic bigwigs, and the discipline will debut at the Sochi Games in 2014. But her death could re-ignite the debate over safety on the halfpipe.

Her death stings, because it is unfair, because Sarah Burke was too young and too smart and too pretty and too warm and too well-liked and too remarkable, as an athlete, to leave us so soon.

Plug her name into Youtube and watch clips of the 29-year-old B.C. skier taking flight, blasting out of a superpipe and soaring up, up, with the blue sky as a backdrop and gravity, an earthly annoyance, as her only limit.

Ms. Burke twists. Twirls. Flips. She makes us gasp, and it is amazing to see, especially now, knowing that every clip is a reminder and a memorial to a gifted skier who pushed the boundaries of her sport. 

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