Cyprien Sarrazin is in France and conscious. This is the main and reassuring news to come from the press conference held this Saturday by Doctor Stéphane Bulle, doctor of the French alpine ski team. A week after his serious fall during training in Bormio, the French champion was repatriated to the neurosurgery department of Médipole de Lyon. If his condition is stable, it is already certain that he will not return to competition this winter. Talk of a return to high-level sport is even off-topic at the moment.
“Cyprien is very tired, he has difficulty speaking following this period of coma, but I am relatively calm. He seems to be doing really well at the moment. He also has difficulty opening his eyes because he suffers from diplopia. (perception of two images of a single object, Editor’s note). For recovery, we talk in months, it is irrelevant to talk in weeks. The entire federal system will be there to support it“, explained Stéphane Bulle in particular. The latter did not advance on the different phases of convalescence and on the recovery time necessary after such a trauma.
After his serious fall last week, the 30-year-old skier suffered an intracranial hematoma which was resolved following an operation. His recovery phase the next day went well, which allowed him to be transferred from an intensive care unit to the care unit and no other after-effects were noted. His foot and knee were also affected. The rest of the career of the spectacular double winner in Kitzbühel last winter is at this stage up in the air.
