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Cyprien Sarrazin will “better and better” after his heavy fall
The tricolor skier spoke for the first time publicly since his fall last December. Its recovery should last for another several months.
Posted: 24.01.2025, 8:50 p.m.
Cyprien Sarrazin said he felt “better and better”.
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French skier Cyprien Sarrazin, victim of a heavy cerebral concussion during a fall in Decembersaid that he felt “better and better” in a video published on his networks on Friday, on the eve of the legendary Kitzbühel that he won twice last year.
«Everything is fine, I feel better and better day after day. I have just done the day before yesterday and they are rather very positive, “said” CYP “, visibly always weakened but filmed standing.
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“The only problem that could remain is vision: I have a double vision,” he said. “But again, the MRIs show that there is no reason for it to be completely treated completely so I am very happy, everything is positive.”
-This is the first time that Cyprien Sarrazin has been expressed publicly since his fall in late December during an official training in Bormio in Italy, which had caused an “acute intracranial hematoma” which had “quickly aggravated”.
“We speak in months”
Repatriated to France in a neurology department, he was transferred mid-January to a rehabilitation service.
“We are talking in months, we are not at all on a recovery in weeks,” warned Stéphane Bulle in early January, confirming that the 30-year-old Haut-Alpin season was over.
The fall of Cyprien Sarrazin, at the end of December during an official training in Bormio in Italy, had caused an “acute intracranial hematoma” which had “quickly aggravated”.
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“I don’t remember everything,” continued Sarrazin. “Five days ago when it is a bit of the black hole but I start to have all the elements. This is where I am and it all starts to go back to normal. ”
A little earlier in the evening, Sarrazin had expressed himself in another message, this time in English, broadcast on giant screens at the bottom of the Kitzbühel track, where he had returned last year in the legend of his sport Thanks to a fantastic lined on the Streif.
“I mean thank you to Kitzbühel because my life changed last year,” he said in this message broadcast next to the arrival area. “It’s the best descent that exists and if I’m not here this year, I’m still standing so I’m lucky.”
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