(Reuters) - Top Canadian freestyle skier Sarah Burke, an early gold medal favorite ahead of the 2014 Olympics, died at a Utah hospital on Thursday from injuries she suffered in a training fall. She ...

"Certainly, freestyle skiing has one of the greatest safety records of almost any sport. Freestyle is a very safe sport in large part because we had to build a safe sport in order to get into the ...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Canadian freestyle skier Sarah Burke was seriously injured Tuesday while training on the superpipe in Park City, Utah, and airlifted to a Salt Lake City hospital. A spokeswoman ...

In a Jan. 28, 2010, file photo, Sarah Burke, of Canada, reacts after failing to place in the top-three finishers in the slopestyle skiing women's final at the Winter X Games at Buttermilk Mountain ...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Sarah Burke was an X Games star with a grass-roots mentality — a daredevil superpipe skier who understood the risks inherent to her sport and the debt she owed to it for her ...

In 2010, she married another freestyle skier, Rory Bushfield, and they were headliners in a documentary film project on the Ski Channel called "Winter." In her interview with AP two years ago, Burke ...

Sarah Burke holds her gold metal after winning the Women's Superpipe event at Winter X Games 13 in January of 2009 at Buttermilk Ski Area, near Aspen, Colo. Burke died Thursday, nine days after ...