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RIP Skier Sarah Burke

She was hella pretty, but I don't have much sympathy for those who get hurt/killed participating in a dangerous sport.
 
Printer Bandit said:
play hard and die.
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ch33zw1z said:
Very sad 🙁 FWIW, she died doing something she loved.
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Yep over the years I pushed it and never regreated it but I could have had my time..... many times. But at 45 I'm slowing down and thinking family. Bless her and her family for the times they are now facing but I could never take away what she did because she loved it and lived for that natural high.
 
BoomerD said:
She was hella pretty, but I don't have much sympathy for those who get hurt/killed participating in a dangerous sport.
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She gets some sympathy from me, but as it is now in Canada (omfg, we all mourning, so sad...), it's overdone. Sucks she died, but she did it completely voluntarily for fun.
 
When I heard about this accident, I had to go look it up because I knew a Sarah Burke in high school, and she apparently liked me - a real lot.
 
Wow RIP, that sucks.

While I've also spent most of my life skateboarding and snowboarding I have to admit, kids are really pushing it these days. These superpipes are fucking huge when you stand inside of one, and the riders in these competitions just keep going bigger each year. I've always been more for style and not for how big or fast anyone can go, but the trend keeps going that direction.

Even locally, every time I see some little kid in the pipe on a slope doing anything inverted I cringe. I've seen some nasty bails on rodeos and they usually end up being brought out in an ambulance.

There have been a couple of documentaries of kids (usually ex motorcross pros) that are paralyzed regretting getting into the sport. I understand the love for the sport, but the competition really pushes these kids to the limits.
 
Sucks for her relations, but it's neutral for her. I don't think she's sitting around wishing she didn't die. She was living it up until the last second. Perfect way to go.
 
Kadarin said:
Yeah. She should have spent her life instead on the sofa watching tv.
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its one thing to risk your life in iraq, its another to go down a hill really fast for competition.

these athletes are essentially dare devils. you can't really die from say jumping over a hurdle wrong.
 
She probably learned this horrible daredevil behavior from watching The Simpsons. "Bart did it, Homer did it, I'll do it too!"
Jump the gorge, it won't hurt you!
Lies, all lies.
 
Imp said:
She gets some sympathy from me, but as it is now in Canada (omfg, we all mourning, so sad...), it's overdone. Sucks she died, but she did it completely voluntarily for fun.
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J-Money said:
She died "voluntarily for fun"?
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More like she knew the risk associated doing a jump like that. 🙁

A six-time Winter X Games champion, Burke crashed on the same halfpipe where snowboarder Kevin Pearce suffered a traumatic brain injury during a training accident Dec. 31, 2009.
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She died doing what she loved. RIP.

I love how the people who proabably never leave their chair are being dickheads about it... leave it alone she died and some people simply wanted to say RIP and you assholes need to troll a thread about someone death? Wow just wow.
 
Saddest part is she actually landed the trick clean.

She fell afterwards and hit her head.

Had such a good shot at Olympic gold after being instrumental in getting womens superpipe in the Olympics for 2014.
 
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