Freestyle skier Rose Battersby, a New Zealander, incurred a spinal fracture, and Icelandic snowboarder Halldor Helgason suffered a concussion.

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Indeed, their one big hope here, freestyle skier Jacqui Cooper, injured herself badly in practice and was forced to fly home for surgery.

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Consider that when freestyle skier Sarah Burke died while training for the 2012 Winter X Games, her contemporaries honored her memory by throwing down stunts in a halfpipe just like the one that caused her death.

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As a sport, freestyle speaks to them far more than watching one skier after another race the clock down the same old slope -- Vonn or no Vonn.

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