Squaw’s Sigourney takes silver in ski superpipe at X Games
By ESPN
Sarah Burke won her fourth Winter X SuperPipe gold medal Thursday night under the lights at Winter X 15 at Buttermilk, Colo. Winter X rookie Brita Sigourney of Squaw placed second, and Roz Groenewoud rounded out the podium.
Burke, who qualified in the last position for Thursday night’s final, earned the highest score — a 91.33 — for her second run, which included back-to-back flairs, a 720 and a corked 900.
“It feels great,” Burke said, “and all it took was nine hard days of training.” Recovering from a shoulder surgery she underwent this past summer after a disappointing 2010 contest season (she placed sixth in Slopestyle and SuperPipe at Winter X last year), Burke wasn’t cleared by her doctor to ski halfpipe until less than two weeks before Thursday night’s contest.