Asked by RTL this Sunday, the president of the French Ski Federation Fabien Saguez returned to the stressful minutes which followed the fall of the French downhiller in Bormio.
«We had a few difficult hours“. Guest of the show “On refait le sport” on the channels of RTL Sunday evening, the president of the French Ski Federation Fabien Saguez returned to the heavy fall of Cyprien Sarrazin, which occurred during training on the Bormio slope (Italy) on December 27.
«We had a few difficult hours following his fall. Immediately after his fall, although there was a slight loss of consciousness, he was relatively lucid. It’s rather the fact that… the time of evacuation, of arriving at the hospital, of doing the first examinations… and it was from that moment on that his condition deteriorated a little bit and that the decision was made to operate, confided the leader. There was a little moment of heat. We don’t like to see these kinds of falls. I’ve been accompanying skiers for over twenty years, every time we have this kind of situation, we’re all not very well.»
The Bormio slopes in question
Operated immediately to drain an intracranial hematoma, Cyprien Sarrazin was repatriated to France on Saturday to begin his convalescence and rehabilitation near Lyon. “He will begin to recover his skills starting with walking, getting up, and all the gestures of daily life“, declared Fabien Saguez. The French downhiller, 30, will not ski again this season and will therefore miss the Worlds in Saalbach (Austria) from February 4 to 16.
The airbag clearly protected Cyprien, it protected his entire trunk.
Fabien Saguez, president of the French Ski Federation at RTL.
Relaunched on the state of the Italian track, criticized while it must host the downhill events during the 2026 Winter Olympic Games, the president of the French Ski Federation did not wish to shoot the ambulance.
«On the track, could we have better optimized the preparation? Could the organizer, the International Federation, have done better? Maybeconceded the former national technical director of the Blues, offering some suggestions. One thing is certain, there are perhaps some small reflexes to be had. This track is very long, it is very physically demanding. When we see that the conditions are very tough as was the case, (…) we can actually imagine shortening the track, trying routes that we don’t usually use.
«I think that in the context of the fall of Cyprien, and of quite a few athletes in Bormio, it was not the equipment that was lacking but rather the quality of snowhe added (…) The airbag clearly protected Cyprien, it protected his entire trunk.»
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