Burke's death re-ignites safety debate
VANCOUVER - The death of daredevil pipe skier Sarah Burke might well have been a freak accident that resulted from a seemingly innocuous training run fall at Park City, Utah.But it is still likely to re-ignite the debate over safety in the halfpipe, or superpipe as many of the U-shaped snow-and-ice venues now are called as their walls have climbed to 22 feet.Two years ago, American snowboarder ...
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Burke's death seen as a freak accident
Peter Judge, CEO of the Canadian Freestyle Ski Association, said Burke’s fall and subsequent death as a result of the irreversible brain damage was a 'fluke more than anything else'
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