Canada’s Cassie Sharpe celebrates a gold medal thanks to the influence of the late Sarah Burke. (Loic Venance/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)If it were not for Sarah Burke, there might have been no women’s freestyle skiing halfpipe competition in the Olympics and possibly no Cassie Sharpe, who won gold for Canada. On Tuesday, Burke’s husband, Rory Bushfield, watched proudly from Canada as Sharpe won gold. “Sarah gave her life for that,” he told the Associated Press from his home in Whistler, B.C. It’s super-emotional for me.”Just as it was for Burke’s coach, Trennon Paynter, who happens to coach the halfpipe team.

Source: Washington Post February 20, 2018 13:39 UTC