Stories from NYT > Freestyle Skiing
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After Burke's Death, a Time for Contemplation-and Questions
NYT > Freestyle Skiing &bull Jan 20, 2012
This is when sports gets hard, on days when people like Sarah Burke die, when the awe over spectacular performances in increasingly dangerous sports is replaced by horror that someone could die doing them. Burke's sport, freestyle skiing, is one of a long line of sports growing more perilous as the athletes get better, the physics get riskier as speeds and heights increase. Sure, we cheer as… Full Story »
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Canadian Skier Burke Undergoes Surgery After Accident
NYT > Freestyle Skiing &bull Jan 12, 2012
Considered one of the top half-pipe athletes in the world, Burke was among the early favorites to win the Olympic gold medal when freestyle halfpipe makes its debut at the 2014 Games in Sochi, Russia. She has reached the podium… Full Story »
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- Park City
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Jamie Pierre, Free Skier Known for Feats of Daring, Dies at 38
NYT > Freestyle Skiing &bull Nov 18, 2011
In 2006, Jamie Pierre skied off a 255-foot cliff in the backcountry of Grand Targhee, Wyo., plummeting nearly headfirst and without a helmet for more than four seconds. He struck the deep powder at the base of the cliff with such force that friends had to… Full Story »
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Correction
NYT > Freestyle Skiing &bull Oct 6, 2011
A map last Sunday with the This Land column, about the skier Hannah Kearney, who won the first gold medal for the United States in this year's Olympics, mislabeled, in some copies, the state in which her hometown of Norwich… Full Story »
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- Hannah Kearney
- Vermont
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A Skier Hopes She Will Again Be Able to Lend More Than Her Voice
NYT > Freestyle Skiing &bull Sep 26, 2011
The plan was for Sandra Laoura to return to Canada, the country where she lost the use of her legs. She would make her peace with the place and, at the same time, with the Olympics. But peace has been unexpectedly difficult to come by for Laoura, who won a bronze in moguls skiing at the 2006 Winter Games, in… Full Story »
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Silver Medalist's Death Called Suicide by Police
NYT > Freestyle Skiing &bull Jul 26, 2011
The Olympic silver medalist Jeret Peterson was found dead in a remote canyon in Utah in what the police are calling a suicide. Peterson, a freestyle skier known as Speedy who patented the Hurricane and took second place at the… Full Story »
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- Jeret Peterson
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Jeret 'Speedy' Peterson Commits Suicide, Police Say
NYT > Freestyle Skiing &bull Jul 26, 2011
Jeret Peterson, a charismatic, pioneering United States Winter Olympian who won a silver medal in the freestyle aerials during the 2010 Vancouver Games, was found dead in a remote Utah canyon Monday night in what police are calling a suicide. Peterson, 29, battled alcoholism and… Full Story »
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Americans Win World Cup Events
NYT > Freestyle Skiing &bull Jul 20, 2011
The American Ted Ligety clinched his second consecutive World Cup giant slalom Saturday, beating Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway by more than a second in Val d'Isere, France. The Americans Patrick Deneen and Hannah Kearney won the men's and women's… Full Story »
