{"id":486407,"date":"2026-02-19T23:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T23:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/486407\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T23:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T23:55:09","slug":"canadian-freestyle-skier-cassie-sharpe-taken-off-in-sled-after-scary-fall-during-womens-halfpipe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/486407\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian freestyle skier Cassie Sharpe taken off in sled after scary fall during women&#8217;s halfpipe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 2 minutes<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1769622188_364_default.jpg\" data-cy=\"image-img\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Follow Winter Olympic SportsPersonalize Your Feed<\/p>\n<p>Canadian freestyle skier Cassie Sharpe suffered a bad fall during the women\u2019s freeski halfpipe event on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>Rescue operations took several \u200ctense minutes during which the crowd fell quiet but spectators cheered in relief as Sharpe was fit enough to wave her arms while taken away on a sled.<\/p>\n<p>Sharpe&#8217;s conditions is stable, according to the Peter Judge, CEO of Freestyle Canada. The federation said the 33-year-old, from Comox, B.C., lost consciousness, but is awake and talking. She was taken to the Livigno clinic for further tests.<\/p>\n<p>Sharpe, who won halfpipe Olympic gold \u2060in 2018 and silver in 2022, had already finished with 88.25 points in her first run, qualifying her among the top 12 going to Saturday&#8217;s finals.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH | Sharpe crashes during 2nd run:<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1771545309_289_default.jpg\"  alt=\"\" class=\"thumbnail\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"video-item-title\">Canada&#8217;s Cassie Sharpe taken away by sled after crash in freeski halfpipe qualification<\/p>\n<p>Olympic gold and silver-medalist Cassie Sharpe of Comox, B.C., had already qualified for the Olympic women&#8217;s freeski halfpipe final, when she crashed during her second run.<\/p>\n<p>According to Judge, it is unlikely Sharpe will participate in Saturday&#8217;s final out of an abundance of caution, but the organization will await further updates from medical staff.<\/p>\n<p>Calgary&#8217;s Amy Fraser also qualified for the final, ranking seventh after scoring 81.75 points in her second run, while Rachael Karker, of Erin, Ont., came ninth after earning 78.25 points.<\/p>\n<p>Dillan Glennie, of North Vancouver, B.C., missed the qualification after coming in 14th with 73.00.<\/p>\n<p>Defending Olympic champion Eileen Gu advanced to the final while shaking off a fall during her opening run.<\/p>\n<p>Gu clipped the lip of the halfpipe on the third trick of her first run, knocking her left ski off and sending her skittering to the bottom of the course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-486407","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}