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Originally Posted by AR_Six
This has been an incredibly sad day for everyone who knew Sarah. The thing that isn't obvious to the general public is that even though this is getting attention because she was a gold medal hopeful, it's a much bigger loss than a great skier. And don't get me wrong, she was - this has become a bit of a young person's game, you're over the hill by 26 and some new 19 year old is taking things to the next level, but at 29 she was still winning everything. Being at the forefront for so long, she got a lot of girls interested in freeskiing, and skiing generally. Whoever does end up winning women's gold in Sochi has Sarah to thank for it. But that just doesn't do justice to who she was.
Sarah was one of those rare people who everyone loved, you couldn't help it. Talking to kids who she'd coached on the glacier in Whistler it was like when they would learn something new she would be just as excited as they were. There's something cosmically unfair about losing a person like her to what was a freak accident - the fall that led to her death was one that plenty of us have taken before, myself included. Knowing she's not going to be around to see something she was so integral to, her sport getting onto the biggest stage possible, is a very hard thing to take.
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Well.....i have to believe that the just now finished x games did her tremendous justice....as much as any single event could.
I hope those athelets party their faces off in tribute tonight, because they did her proud this week. In particular the Canadian contingent...they wre flat out awesome at the single most difficult time of their lives to be so.
RIP Sarah....and smile that smile after this performance by your peers.