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headsnap · 02-10-2009, 03:35 PM

Freestyle motocross racer Jeremy Lusk dies

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.

**Donger** · 02-10-2009, 03:38 PM

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“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.

What a charming bedside manner. I love doctors who refer to me as an organism.

Otter · 02-10-2009, 03:40 PM

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What a charming bedside manner. I love doctors who refer to me as an organism.

I think it was supposed to be 'organs'.

**jAZ** · 02-10-2009, 05:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Donger

What a charming bedside manner. I love doctors who refer to me as an organism.

Lanugage barrier... he was in Costa Rica at the time.

Otter · 02-10-2009, 03:39 PM

Just read this on news site. I hope this doesn't sound morbid but it's really quiet amazing this kind of thing doesn't happen more often the way these guys push the envelope.

He was truly a master of his art. RIP brother.

**KcMizzou** · 02-10-2009, 03:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Otter

Just read this on news site. I hope this doesn't sound morbid but it's really quiet amazing this kind of thing doesn't happen more often the way these guys push the envelope.

He was truly a master of his art. RIP brother.

Err, what Otter said...

**MahiMike** · 02-11-2009, 06:51 AM

[QUOTE=Otter;5476744]Just read this on news site. I hope this doesn't sound morbid but it's really quiet amazing this kind of thing doesn't happen more often the way these guys push the envelope.

I'm always thinking the same thing. Used to be you could just watch a dirtbike race or a slalom ski competition and be content. Now you have to have guys getting "crazy" air to be exciting. At the end, someone's always drinking their sponsor's energy drink.

No wonder my kid quit baseball. Takes too much to excite them anymore.

**Bowser** · 02-10-2009, 03:42 PM

Way too young.

**Gonzo** · 02-10-2009, 03:44 PM

Dude... Seriously?

Demonpenz · 02-10-2009, 03:45 PM

Hate to loose one of our own, but pushing our body machines to the max is what we do.

**KcMizzou** · 02-10-2009, 03:45 PM

It's amazing this doesn't happen more often. Some of the stuff those guys do is insane.

Simplex3 · 02-10-2009, 03:54 PM

Video here:

http://backporch.fanhouse.com/2009/0...orcycle-crash/

**Buck** · 02-10-2009, 03:57 PM

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Video here:

http://backporch.fanhouse.com/2009/0...orcycle-crash/

Damn, it doesn't look like he hit THAT hard, just that he got real twisted up.

RIP

**The Franchise** · 02-10-2009, 03:59 PM

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Damn, it doesn't look like he hit THAT hard, just that he got real twisted up.

RIP

Yeah but I don't think your neck and back are supposed to bend like that.

Midnight_Vulture · 02-10-2009, 03:59 PM

RIP

I could of gotten into motorcross but it is just waaaay too dangerous.

On a side note, his wife (now widow) is smokin hot.

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