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Originally Posted by STeeLy
My co-worker, who used to be a compete in snowboard slopestyle knew Sarah Burke pretty well, after her passing, they made a lot of "Celebrate Sarah" stickers. My co-worker was going to give them to her sister for this olympic to put them on her sled, but she said that they would not allow it.
I understand that there is no real advertisement for the Olympics, but why can't an athlete have something showing in memory of other athletes?
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Who's your co-worker? Might be I know her. Yeah there was a lot of "I Ski for Sarah" stickers going around at the time, I have a couple left over somewhere.
The reason they didn't allow it is that they basically lump it in with other political statements. It's not that they object to remembering people but they don't want to have to go to the trouble of vetting every sticker or symbol people want to wear to make sure it's not a political statement. Team Canada knew beforehand that those wouldn't be allowed. Still sucks, but really, there was no lack of recognition given to Sarah in these games. Her name was mentioned over the loudspeaker by the guys calling the action more than any other athlete, she's talked about in every interview, and for good reason: all the girls know that this is because of her. Not just the olympics, but women's skiing. When Sarah started there was no Women's Halfpipe. She made it happen.