Victim of a heavy fall on Friday December 27, the French team skier is still hospitalized but will be repatriated to France.
Good news for Frenchman Cyprien Sarrazin who will finally be repatriated to France in the coming days according to a press release from the FFS which gives details on his state of health. “Following his fall during official training for the Bormio downhill on Friday December 27, Cyprien Sarrazin underwent an operation the same day consisting of resolving an intracranial hematoma,” recalls Doctor Stéphane Bulle, doctor of the French alpine ski team, in a message relayed by the FFS. “The recovery phase carried out on Saturday December 28 went well and his state of health is stable. He left the intensive care unit and was hospitalized in a care unit. A long period of recovery then rehabilitation followed. is now engaged and the duration of his unavailability is currently undetermined. The rest of the medical assessment (painful foot and knee) is very reassuring and, despite the violence of the shock, no other lesion was noted. The MRI carried out. of December 31 leaves consider repatriation to France this Friday January 3 and hospitalization in the neurosurgery department of the Médipole de Lyon”
The Frenchman underwent surgery
After carrying out several examinations, the medical team announced that the Frenchman was suffering from an intracranial hematoma. The athlete had to be operated on on the evening of Friday December 27. The French Ski Federation announced late Friday afternoon that the operation was intended to “drain the subdural hematoma”.
Cyprien SARRAZIN was operated on yesterday night to decompress the intracranial hematoma. The operation went well, he remains under anesthesia for the moment.
We will communicate more information to you during the day. https://t.co/qyivgj8eLB— FFS – French Ski Federation (@FedFranceSki) December 28, 2024
A dangerous descent
The accident occurred when the French had set the best time in the first training session in Bormio the day before. It was on this track that he won his first race last season. The Bormio descent is considered one of the most dangerous of the season. She is criticized by other skiers for being dangerous, like Nils Allègre, another member of the French delegation.
“They don’t know how to prepare the slopes, they’ve been preparing the slopes for forty years and they don’t know how to do anything other than prepare dangerous slopes. They don’t deserve to have the Olympic Games here,” he said. -he for example denounced on Eurosport.
“We are being heckled in all directions, the conditions are really not good. I am very unhappy with the organization. […] The problem is how it is prepared. For example, they didn’t have time to work the lower part as much as usual, because they didn’t have enough snow. In the end, that’s the best part. They deliberately make the slope more difficult, with holes, with ice,” the skier also commented to The Team.