Sarah Jean Burke was a Canadian freestyle skier who was a pioneer of the superpipe event. She was a five-time Winter X Games gold medallist, and won the world championship in the halfpipe in 2005. She
Kevin Pearce is an American mentor, health coach and motivational speaker. He is also a former professional snowboarder. He was born in Hanover, New Hampshire, and raised in Hartland, Vermont, before
Sarah Burke
…was seriously injured while training on the Park City Mountain Resort Eagle superpipe in Park City, Utah. This is the same superpipe where snowboarder Kevin Pearce was seriously injured in 2009. Onlookers reported that Burke had completed a trick fairly well yet fell onto her head, and the accident did not appear…