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"Sarah Burke, six-time X Games gold medalist freeskier, died yesterday of injuries sustained in a halfpipe crash in Utah January 10th; she was 29. Throughout her career, Sarah was a trailblazer&amp;amp;#8212;fighting for women to be allowed to compete and campaigning to make freeskiing an Olympic sport, which it will be, finally, in 2014. She was also a longtime spokesperson and collaborator with Roxy&amp;amp;#8212;as a member of the brand&amp;#x27;s snow team and a Roxy professional rider&amp;amp;#8212;which is how I came to know her and work with her over the past few years. Sarah was amazing&amp;amp;#8212;not only in her tremendous athletic and professional accomplishments&amp;amp;#8212;but she was also incredibly creative and such a fantastic person to be around (that&amp;#x27;s us&amp;amp;#8212;she&amp;#x27;s on the far right&amp;amp;#8212;in Montauk at Roxy Surf Camp back in 2010 where she helped teach us/me to try to surf, try being the operative word). She and her husband, skier Rory Bushfeld, starred in the 2011 Ski Channel series Winter. Check out a clip below: Here&amp;#x27;s an excerpt from Sarah&amp;#x27;s Roxy bio:Sarah has managed to win every major competition in both Superpipe and Slopestyle. She became a five-time X Games gold medalist when she put down an unprecedented eleven foot 900 and back-to-back flares to win the women&amp;#x27;s Superpipe event at the 2011 Winter X Games in Aspen, and again in Tignes, France. In 2007 at the World Skiing Invitational in Canada, Sarah became the first woman to land a 1080-degree spin in competition. Sarah??s remarkable performances on the mountain led to her being named one of the most influential skiers in the past 35 years by Powder Magazine in 2007. At the same exciting time, Sarah became the first skier to ever win an ESPY Award when she was honored with &amp;quot;Female Action Sports Athlete of the Year.&amp;quot; As a true fearless innovator on the snow and in the air, she was the first woman to throw a 720, 900, 1080, and a flare in competition. When asked what gets her excited to get out of bed in the morning, Sarah admits, &amp;quot;Eating. I love, love, love breakfast-eggs, cereal, chocolate&amp;amp;#8212;whatever works!&amp;quot; After her death, in accordance with her wishes, Sarah&amp;#x27;s organs and tissues were donated to help save the lives of others. A website has also been set up to help her family defray the extensive costs of her medical treatment and related expenses. She leaves a great legacy behind&amp;amp;#8212;&amp;quot;Female athletes everywhere owe a debt of gratitude to Sarah&amp;#x27;s passionate trailblazing efforts over the last 15 years,&amp;quot; says her dedicated GiveForward.com page. &amp;quot;As the first competitive female freeskier, she successfully lobbied the Winter X Games to include women in freeskiing events on equal standing. It is because of Sarah&amp;#x27;s efforts that female winter athletes are some of the only athletes in the world to receive equal prize purses to that of men.&amp;quot; Sarah was an amazing woman, and we&amp;#x27;ll miss her."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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