… Shaun White proved yet again that he is the world’s top halfpipe snowboarder with an unprecedented perfect score of 100 in the superpipe final at Winter X Games, winning his fifth consecutive gold medal in the discipline.

… White executed the first truly perfect performance in Winter X Games history, including an 18-foot backside air, a 17-foot frontside double cork 1080, an 11-foot switch frontside double cork 1080, a 14-foot frontside cork 540, a 13-foot backside double cork 1260 and a 12-foot frontside double cork 1260 — the first back-to-back double cork in Winter X.

The judges awarded the perfect 100. …

USA Today – Shaun White wins Winter X superpipe gold with perfect run

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Like the first Summer YOG, they’ve been called a great success. Here’s the IOC wrap-up post:

… The athletes helped to make Olympic history by participating in a number of events that appeared for the first time on an Olympic programme in Innsbruck ahead of their inclusion in the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games. These included women’s ski jumping, ski halfpipe and snowboard slopestyle. The Games also featured innovative new formats such as the mixed country doubles competition in curling; the mixed sport event cross-country/biathlon; mixed gender luge and ice hockey skills challenge. …

Another hit at the Games was the innovative, interactive USB key known as the Yogger, which was given to every athlete and official. In addition to providing the athletes with essential information in a paperless format, the Yogger acted as a virtual business card, allowing users to share information such as names and email addresses simply by touching their keys together. Swiping the keys against the various CEP booths allowed the athletes to collect electronic material about the activities. …

The next edition of the Winter Youth Olympic Games will be held in Lillehammer, Norway, while the second Summer Youth Olympic Games will take place in Nanjing, China in 2014.

IOC – Innsbruck 2012, the First Ever Winter Youth Olympic Games Exceed Expectations

Innsbruck, Austria – January 12, 2012: Free Style Skiing athlete Beau-James Wells (NZL) at his training session in Kuhtai, Austria, Jan 12, 2012.

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related – Rogge Warns Not to Make YOG Too Costly

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Sarah Burke was a fighter.

I believe that is how she would have wanted to be remembered; she would not want to be remembered simply by a list (although it would be a very long one) of contest wins, groundbreaking halfpipe tricks and “firsts” by a woman. Those are details. Sarah’s life was about the bigger moments, about so much more than being the best woman in the sport of freeskiing. …

… To Sarah, injuries were footnotes.

It was the fight that mattered most. So when the International Olympic Committee announced last year it would add halfpipe and slopestyle skiing to the 2014 Winter Games, no one was prouder to have the opportunity to represent her country than Burke. And not simply because she would be the odds-on favorite to win in the halfpipe, but because she knew how hard a fight it had been to get there. When athletes from around the world, many of them her friends, compete in those inaugural competitions, they will do so knowing Sarah had much to do with winning that fight. …

read more on ESPN W – Remembering Sarah Burke …

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Sarah Burke (September 3, 1982 – January 19, 2012) was a Canadian freestyle skier who grew up in Midland, Ontario, Canada. She later resided in Whistler, British Columbia.

… On January 10, 2012 Burke was seriously injured while training on the Park City Mountain Resort Eagle superpipe in Park City, Utah. …

Onlookers reported that Burke had completed a trick fairly well yet fell onto her head, and the accident did not appear to be very severe. Moments later, however, she went into cardiac arrest while still on the ski slope …

Sarah Burke - four-time Winter X Games champion in halfpipe skiing

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She died 9 days later in hospital. Condolences to husband freeskier Rory Bushfield.

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Ben Ferguson (USA) is triumphant in a spectacular final! – Innsbruck 2012 Men’s Snowboard Halfpipe

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Canadian freestyle skier, Sarah Burke is in a coma after a serious head injury while training at Park City, Utah. The 29 year-old Burke is a four-time Winter X Games champion in the skiing superpipe. …

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This tragedy will be much on the minds of everyone at Youth Winter Olympic Games, starting this weekend in Innsbruck.

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Catch a sneak peak look at one of Ariana Grande‘s performances at Progressive Skating and Gymnastics Spectacular, this time accompanied by Nastia Liukn on the floor exercise.

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I’m have trouble getting excited about this. These “Spectaculars” seem to work better for Skating than Artistic.

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… The winter madness goes down in Aspen, Colorado on January 26 – 29, 2012.

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