ASPEN, Colo. (AP) — 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.
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.