Sarah Burke
Actor · 1982 – 2012 · Canada
Sarah Jean Burke was a Canadian freestyle skier who was a pioneer of the superpipe event. She was a five-time Winter X Games gold medallist, and won the world championship in the halfpipe in 2005. She successfully lobbied the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to have the event added to the Olympic program for the 2014 Winter Olympics. She was considered a medal favourite in the event. Burke died following a training accident in Utah in 2012.
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MovieDocumentarySalad Days, noun: a time of youthful indiscretion and delinquency What really are the salad days? TGR answers with the tightest in jib style and culture. Check it: backcountry air, cliffs, rails, urban, pipe, and more. Witness skiing’s new generation experience the sessions they wish would last forever. These are the happy days, the salad days as they say, when the boys are green in judgment, cold in blood.
Salad Days (TGR)
2002
Movie3.7School is in session, featuring the honor students of skiing performing at the top of their game. Classrooms include: Bella Coola, B.C., Aspen CO, and the Alps of Norway. Senior Class member Shane McConkey returns with a performance of a lifetime, ski basing across the Alps and absolutely schooling his home of Lake Tahoe, CA. Sophomores Tanner Hall, Mark Abma and Eric Pollard deliver the best all around segments in skiing. The freshmen class of Ingrid Backstrom and Tanner Rainville will open people’s minds to the next level of skiing. The class of 2004 proves to be the best in skiing’s history.
Yearbook
2004 · 3 votes
Movie4.6Athletes are pushing the limits of the sport of skiing to new heights everyday, Push takes you around the world with the likes of Simon Dumont, Shane McConkey, Mark Abma, Rory Bushfield, and many others to such locations as Japan, China, Norway, Terrace B.C., Aspen CO, and Whistler B.C.
Push
2006 · 4 votes