(One of the sport's leaders, Canadian Sarah Burke, is in a coma after a bad fall
during halfpipe training in Park City, Utah, on Jan. 10.)
When I made plans to to attend the 2010 Olympics, I purchased tickets early to make sure that I was there to watch the snowboarding events and the
halfpipe finals, just as I had done for the men's and women's finals of the Snowboarding GS at Park City, Utah
during the 2002 Winter Olympics.