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"Sad news for the ski community.\r\nFour-time Winter X Games champion Sarah Burke passed away Thursday, nine days after suffering irreversible brain damage and going into cardiac arrest during a training session in Park City, Utah. She was 29.\r\n\r\nThe Canadian freestyle skier fell on the same halfpipe where snowboarder Kevin Pearce suffered a brain injury while training in 2009.\r\n&amp;quot;She landed a trick down in the bottom end of the pipe and kind of bounced from her feet to her head,&amp;quot; Peter Judge, the CEO of the Canadian freestyle team told Toronto&amp;apos;s Globe and Mail newspaper. &amp;quot;It wasn&amp;apos;t anything that looked like a catastrophic fall, so I&amp;apos;m a bit mystified.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nBurke tore her vertebral artery during the fall, which resulted in a severe brain bleed that sent her into cardiac arrest. She underwent surgery to repair that artery last Thursday, but remained in a coma.\r\n&amp;quot;The family expresses their heartfelt gratitude for the international outpouring of support they have received from all the people Sarah touched,&amp;quot; the athlete&amp;apos;s publicist, Nicole Wool, said in a statement Thursday.\r\n\r\nBurke&amp;apos;s organs and tissues were donated per her request. She leaves behind her husband of two years, skier Rory Bushfield."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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