Skier in coma
January 12, 2012, Thursday
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CANADIAN freestyle skier Sarah Burke was in a coma on Tuesday after crashing during a training run on the superpipe in Park City, Utah. Andy Miller, spokesman at the Park City Mountain Resort, said Burke was taken off the mountain by members of the resort's mountain patrol after the accident and airlifted to a Salt Lake City hospital. Burke is a four-time Winter X Games champion in skiing superpipe - a replica of snowboarding's halfpipe on skis. She lobbied aggressively to have the discipline included in the Olympics, and it will make its debut at the 2014 Sochi Games.
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