Canadian skier suffers brain injury and dies at 29
Posted on Thursday, January 19th, 2012 at 10:46 pm
A 29-year-old Canadian skier has passed away after suffering a traumatic brain injury during a practice run in Park City.
Sarah Burke was a freestyle skier who had placed at the Winter X Games four separate times. She was training at an event in Park City at a resort when she crashed on a half-pipe. This is the same half-pipe that Kevin Pearce, a professional snowboarder, crashed on in 2009.
The crash resulted in Burke ripping her vertebral artery, which caused serious bleeding of the brain. Sarah went into cardiac arrest following the brain injury and was taken to a hospital, where she died nine days later. Her internal organs were donated after her death.
Our thoughts and condolences go out to Sarah’s family and friends during this tragic time.

