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Tributes to Burke begin before Winter X Games |
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Wednesday, January 25, 2012 16:38 |
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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ASPEN — As much as the jumps, flips and twists, this week's Winter X Games will, indeed, be about freestyle skier Sarah Burke.
Burke, a four-time X Games champion, died last week from injuries suffered during an accident while she was training for this week's action in Aspen.
Photos: Skier Sarah Burke
An official tribute to the Canadian, who helped push her discipline of superpipe skiing into the Olympics, will take place Thursday.
But during training runs and at a pre-event news conference Wednesday, Burke was on everyone's mind.
Canadian ski halfpipe coach, Trennon Paynter, set the tone by tweeting a picture from the top of the mountain with a bumper sticker that reads "Celebrate Sarah."
Wrote Paynter: "Sun is shining on the XGames pipe for the first training session. She is right here with us."
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