http://sports.yahoo.com/top/news?slug=ap-obit-lusk&prov=ap&type=lgns

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"SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP)—Jeremy Lusk, an American freestyle motocross racer, died of head injuries Tuesday after crashing while trying to land a backflip in competition. He was 24. Jorge Ramirez, chief of the intensive care unit at Calderon Hospital where Lusk was taken, said the motocross racer suffered severe brain damage and a possible spinal cord injury. Lusk won a gold medal at the 2008 X Games. He was injured Saturday night when he failed to complete a full rotation while attempting a Hart Attack backflip and slammed headfirst into the dirt. Lusk crashed in almost identical fashion in the freestyle semifinals at the 2007 X Games but was not hurt. He had a successful 2008 season, winning Freestyle gold at the X Games and silver in Best Trick when he landed the first double-grab Hart Attack backflip. He won a bronze helmet in Freestyle at the Moto X World Championships in his hometown of San Diego. Ramirez said Lusk died with his parents and his wife, Lauren, at his side. “He was in a medicine-induced coma as a protective measure, and the medicine was being reduced to see how his organism responded,” he said. “That didn’t mean he was going to wake up. He was in shock and that got worse last night, until he stopped responding and entered into cardiac and respiratory failure.” Lusk lived in Temecula, Calif."

Videos are all over Youtube.

R.I.P.

2/10/2009 4:50:28 PM

fock

2/10/2009 4:53:14 PM

2/10/2009 4:54:33 PM

that sucks. it didn't look like it was going to be as bad as it was.

RIP

2/10/2009 4:55:01 PM

ahhh...Twista.

So funny, appropriate, considerate fucking stupid.

2/10/2009 4:56:54 PM

well, considering nobody knows who Jeremy Lusk is...and that you clearly have no idea the context of the picture I posted...you're the one whos fucking stupid

2/10/2009 5:02:18 PM

FUCK YOU TREE TRANNY

2/10/2009 5:09:34 PM

Hey guys, watch this!

2/10/2009 5:10:41 PM

That shit was pretty gross.

2/10/2009 5:14:01 PM

damn man. i actually met him in budds creek Md a few years back at a race. great guy

2/10/2009 5:15:04 PM

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"well, considering nobody knows who Jeremy Lusk is"

Tree Tranny fails again.

2/10/2009 5:17:08 PM

Quote :

"“He was in a medicine-induced coma as a protective measure, and the medicine was being reduced to see how his organism responded,” he said."

WAT

2/10/2009 5:35:15 PM

Tree Tranny? thats pretty fucking lame, and no I don't fail just because a couple people do know who he is

You know whats sad about Panthro? He used to be cool with me in Sports Talk, until one day he found out in The Soap Box that I didn't worship Obama's dick, so now he treats me like shit in Sports Talk

probably because his ability to compartmentalize is equivalent to that of a woman on PMS

2/10/2009 5:44:41 PM

oh shit, it begins.

and fwiw, I razz you because you are an easy target. You tend to react rapidly when someone calls you out, even when it's all in fun.

SO..

I have no problems with you. In fact, I think your posts are insightful are funny to read.

I'm sorry McCain didn't win, but that has absolutely ZERO to do with why i give you shit.

2/10/2009 5:53:54 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVcrZKmZ8MA

here he is dying, from the fall it looked like his spine snapped in half

2/11/2009 1:40:27 AM

damn, that's awful. at least he went quick

2/11/2009 6:56:45 AM

damn, that chick is banging.

2/11/2009 6:59:42 AM

dang that sucks. Im partial to old school motocross since my dad raced but I enjoy some freestyle and supercross now and then (since they televise that more than motocross mainly). Kid was good, but I guess you are aware of those kinds of risks when you are on the freestyle side.

2/11/2009 7:33:17 AM

^^Is she from Wedding Crashers?

2/11/2009 10:46:49 AM

Isla Fisher

2/11/2009 12:54:20 PM

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"here he is dying in a video that makes me feel like I'm going to hell just for watching it, from the fall it looked like his spine snapped in half"

2/11/2009 1:00:22 PM

i thought isla fisher was the hottest thing in wedding crashers

and this coming from a rachael mcadams ovary-hugger

[Edited on February 11, 2009 at 1:12 PM. Reason : f]

2/11/2009 1:12:18 PM