After the death of Burke, Kevin Pearce says risk, Park City halfpipe does not lead

The news, Kevin Pearce, very familiar, and horrible.

Star in the halfpipe gets hard during a training accident in Utah, and flown to a hospital with life-threatening injuries.

But the stories vary from there: Pierce was a good end. Sarah Burke did not.

Removed from the two remarkable recovery after a training accident in the city park, and Peres is to get out and do some business television in the Winter Olympics this week, X - Games played in honor of Burke, and style skier free of accidents in the halfpipe, which led to his death last week.

Despite the loss of one of the stars and the forced removal of other lesions, Winter X athletes from across the garden snow in Aspen insist that the game should continue.

Pierce agrees to be done by clicking on what to do. He did not believe that sport has become very serious.

"These people are there to do it for themselves," Peres said in an interview with The Associated Press. "They're not even pay for the sport, and push the boundaries, because they want to do, and if pressured by the fans or sponsors or family, then I might say," Well, we have this is cool and calm him down. "But because I love him very much and have fun with what Taking this level. "

Pierce does not, and former champion 24 years of age, and I think there is anything inherently wrong in the halfpipe in Park City, Utah, which was the scene of two incidents that stand the terrible sport.

"It's just bad luck, coincidence," said Pierce. "This was a good halfpipe event. Park City has a good half pipe. It's just that we promote the sport, and these things will happen, but Sarah was not even a difficult trick."

Burke had to do a flat spin 540 degrees when it landed heavily, which caused injuries and death. The trick routine for elite athletes. Burke saw the tragedy and an accident - which landed just wrong - have eased some of the arguments that sport has become very serious.

"It's very tough and difficult to estimate because they think it's the nature of each sport," said the founding father of snowboarding, Jake Burton. "Is the payment of all sports are increasingly to the point where people are risking their lives, and I think that when we talk about it, is kind of hard not to sound conservative or too old, or hanging on the safety, but I think I we let athletes do whatever they want to do it, and allow children to progress the sport that you want to go. "

These are good observations, Burton, which has become a competitive halfpipes helmets compulsory courses and slopestyle.

At the same time, the best cycle of building and technology, in the opinion of many, offset somewhat from the effects of large pipes and ladders tricks that make it more difficult as possible, thus increasing the risk factor. For example, through the halfpipe 22 feet is 25 percent of five years, the increase in size and also become better masters of the areas in question.

"If he made a mistake in a tube of 18 feet, which were on the ground on flat bottom very, very quickly," said Kelly Clark, a gold medalist Olympic win Games X on Friday to win the line 13 superpipe season. "With the 22s, if you drag the wall, you take a little bit (transition zone), and in turn, is less injury."

Pierce days in the halfpipe 22 feet over.

Horseback riding is still every day, but this is the travel soft bottom of the mountain - nothing risky, because a further drop of any kind can cause a setback, "not worth it for me, not after what has worked hard post two years."

Says it's hard to be in the lower part of the race, and see their friends down the mountain, pulling tricks thrown once. Used to be one of the best player in the world, the man who may one day support for the pay Shawn White the winner. When he feels sorry for himself, however, and think about how you have worked hard to get where it is. Now, unfortunately, after the death of Burke, who has nothing else to think about.

"I am sitting here (the complaint) not to travel in the tube a half," he said. "But I'm alive and I'm talking to you and I'm cruising and skiing, and puts everything in perspective, it makes me realize how lucky I am."