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Canadian Freestyle skier Sarah Burke, a potential medallist for Canada for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games, suffered a dangerous freefall in a training run in Utah, that left her in a "medically-induced coma" in a Utah hospital, as doctors tried to stem swelling to her brain, "intercranial hemmorhage".
She later underwent successful brain surgery to "repair a vertebral artery, a major vessel that supplies blood to the brain", but, her prognosis for recovery is still in queation.
Fro more: http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/TopStories/20120112/burke-condition-hospital-120112/
She later underwent successful brain surgery to "repair a vertebral artery, a major vessel that supplies blood to the brain", but, her prognosis for recovery is still in queation.
Fro more: http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/TopStories/20120112/burke-condition-hospital-120112/