The French Ski Federation announced this Friday the transfer of Cyprien Sarrazin to the rehabilitation department of the Henry Gabrielle center in Lyon. A new step towards his recovery.
A week after his repatriation to France, French skier Cyprien Sarrazin, seriously injured in the head during a fall in Bormio (Italy) at the end of December, was transferred “to the rehabilitation department”, a doctor from the French ski team.
“Faced with the favorable evolution of his condition, Cyprien Sarrazin was transferred to the rehabilitation department at the Henry Gabrielle center in Lyon,” said Stéphane Bulle, the doctor of the French Alpine Ski Teams, in a brief message.
On December 27, during the second official training before the downhill and super G in Bormio, counting for the World Cup, Sarrazin lost control of his skis on one of the last difficulties of the Stelvio in Bormio, one of the the most feared slopes of the circuit where the men’s alpine skiing events of the 2026 Olympics will take place.
Suffering on his arrival at the Italian Sondalo hospital from an “acute intracranial hematoma” which had “rapidly worsened”, Stéphane Bulle explained last week that it was necessary to make a “trephine hole” in the skull. of the skier, “that is to say suction to empty the blood inside the hematoma”.
Sarrazin, 30 years old and world number 2 in downhill last winter during which he won in Bormio and twice in Kitzbühel (Austria), was transferred last week from Austria to the neurological department of Médipole de Lyon, which he has now left for the rehabilitation center.
“We’re talking in months, we’re not at all talking about recovery in weeks,” Stéphane Bulle warned last week, confirming that the Frenchman’s season was over.
“We are going to start allowing him to do things that everyone does, namely sit, eat, stand,” he then added.
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