Sarah Burke, the star X Games skier who was injured this week on a training run in Park City, Utah, remains in critical condition. The Canadian ski pro, 29, "sustained serious injuries and remains intubated and sedated in critical condition," a doctor at University of Utah hospital said in a statement released by Burke's publicist, according to Fox Sports. The Associated Press reported Thursday that she underwent successful surgery to repair a torn vertebral artery that caused bleeding between her brain and her skull. For now, it seems her prognosis is uncertain. William Couldwell, the doctor who performed the operation, says...
- 1/12/2012
- by Rennie Dyball
- PEOPLE.com
Following a harrowing crash on the superpipe while doing a training run, freestyle skier Sarah Burke is in a medically-induced coma, reports the Vancouver Sun. Burke, 29, was practicing at the Park City Mountain Resort in Utah and was immediately airlifted to the Salt Lake City hospital after the accident.
Peter Judge, Canadian Freestyle Ski Association CEO, tells the press, "At this point we have no real details as to what transpired in terms of the injury and, again, we would be speculating largely on what that might be. Any time there's an injury, you always do a full audit to understand fully what the root causes were and if there were ways that you could make anything safer and I'm sure that will be the case in this as well."
The Cfsa released a statement Wednesday (Jan. 11) saying that Burke is listed in critical condition in the Neuro Critical Care...
Peter Judge, Canadian Freestyle Ski Association CEO, tells the press, "At this point we have no real details as to what transpired in terms of the injury and, again, we would be speculating largely on what that might be. Any time there's an injury, you always do a full audit to understand fully what the root causes were and if there were ways that you could make anything safer and I'm sure that will be the case in this as well."
The Cfsa released a statement Wednesday (Jan. 11) saying that Burke is listed in critical condition in the Neuro Critical Care...
- 1/12/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
Skiing champion Sarah Burke has fallen into a coma after suffering an accident on the slopes in Park City, Utah.
The athlete was completing a training run at the Park City Mountain Resort on Tuesday when she crashed and landed on her head.
CEO of the Canadian freestyle team, Peter Judge, tells Toronto's Globe and Mail, "She landed a trick down in the bottom end of the pipe and kind of bounced from her feet to her head. It wasn't anything that looked like a catastrophic fall, so I'm a bit mystified."
The 29 year old was airlifted to a Salt Lake City hospital, where she is currently listed in critical condition.
The athlete was completing a training run at the Park City Mountain Resort on Tuesday when she crashed and landed on her head.
CEO of the Canadian freestyle team, Peter Judge, tells Toronto's Globe and Mail, "She landed a trick down in the bottom end of the pipe and kind of bounced from her feet to her head. It wasn't anything that looked like a catastrophic fall, so I'm a bit mystified."
The 29 year old was airlifted to a Salt Lake City hospital, where she is currently listed in critical condition.
- 1/11/2012
- WENN
Four-time Winter X Games winner Sarah Burke is in a coma after an accident during a training run on the superpipe in Park City, Utah. The ski pro, 29, was taken by members of the resort's mountain patrol and airlifted to a Salt Lake City hospital, according to Peter Judge, the CEO of the Canadian freestyle team. "She landed a trick down in the bottom end of the pipe and kind of bounced from her feet to her head," Judge tells Toronto's Globe and Mail newspaper. "It wasn't anything that looked like a catastrophic fall, so I'm a bit mystified." Burke,...
- 1/11/2012
- by Dahvi Shira
- PEOPLE.com
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