PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (AP) — Cassie Sharpe won the gold medal. If she could divide it into pieces, there would be plenty of places to spread it around.
Part would go to Canada. Part would go to all the women who have pushed her sport so far. And a big part would go to Sarah Burke — the late, great Canadian superstar who pushed women's ski halfpipe into the Olympics, where it never looked better than it did Tuesday.
Soaring into the sunshine, Sharpe captured Canada's eighth gold medal of the Pyeongchang Games to edge out Marie Martinod, who now has two Olympic silver medals, also largely thanks to Burke.