Bulldogs' season begins for real Friday in Hendersonville. Two scrimmages in three days. Thatâs the task the Murphy High School Bulldogsâ football team found themselves with last week, but it is safe to say they made the most of the preseason action.
skip to content. Freestyle skiing is one of the newest disciplines on the Olympic programme, having made its debut in 1992, when only the moguls were contested. Aerials became an official medal event at the 1994 Winter Games in Lillehammer, while ski cross was added to the programme in 2010.
Burke's accident occurred on the same course where snowboarder and Olympic medalist Kevin Pearce suffered a traumatic brain injury in 2009. Freestyle skiing is something of a daredevil sport, a sort of trick skiing that uses the half-pipe, which is normally used by snowboarders. Burke was training for the upcoming X Games in Aspen, Colo., where she was the defending champion and expected to win again.