Cyprien Sarrazin is ‘progressing’ and ‘communicating’, explained his teammates gathered at the Wengen station. The Frenchman suffered a serious head injury in a fall at the end of December in Bormio.
“He is conscious, he is smiling, he communicates and he is already watching the ski,” said Blaise Giezendanner on the eve of the Wengen World Cup super-G, which Sarrazin won last year, before the legendary descent. from the Lauberhorn on Saturday.
Nils Allègre, for his part, wanted to ‘go see Cyprien last weekend’ in rehabilitation in Lyon, without this being possible yet. ‘But on Tuesday when I woke up from my nap, I had the pleasant surprise of having a message from +Cyp+ asking me to call him, which I did immediately. He progresses, he takes a step forward every day, it lightens our hearts. We all think of him,’ confided his teammate.
Matthieu Bailet received ‘a little voice message’ in which the skier from Dévoluy was ‘happy with the progress’ and ‘positive’. ‘Afterwards, to say that things are going well or not, it’s not for me to say, I’m not a doctor, but as a friend and group colleague, it made me happy to have his news’, Bailet added.
Last Friday, the doctor of the French ski team indicated that ‘faced with the favorable evolution of his condition’, Cyprien Sarrazin had left the neurological department of the Médipole de Lyon to be transferred ‘to the rehabilitation department at the Henry center Gabrielle’ in the same city.
Without guarantee
-But the convalescence promises to be long for the world No. 2 in downhill last season: after his violent fall on December 27, he suffered from an ‘acute intracranial hematoma’, and his skull had to be pierced with a ‘hole trepan’ to drain the blood, according to the same source.
‘We’re talking in months, we’re not at all talking about a recovery in weeks,’ Stéphane Bulle warned at the beginning of January, confirming that the 30-year-old Haut-Alpin season was over.
‘We’re going to start allowing him to do things that everyone does, namely sit, eat, stand up,’ he added, explaining that the aim was to allow Sarrazin to resume his career, but without guarantee after such an injury.
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