LIVIGNO, Italy — Maybe the most precious pin at the Milan Cortina Games celebrates an athlete who helped lead an entire sport into the Olympics, but never got to compete herself. Canada’s late, great freeskier Sarah Burke was a pioneer in the women’s halfpipe. She encouraged girls and young women to jump into what was, decades ago, almost exclusively a men’s sport. Later, her lobbying was key to getting the event onto the Olympic program. But she died at age 29 in a training accident in 2012,

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