Skier Sarah Burke dies

By News Staff

Posted January 19, 2012 7:13 pm.

This article is more than 5 years old.

Canadian freestyle skier Sarah Burke died Thursday, nine days after crashing at the bottom of the superpipe during a training run in Utah.

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