Sad news for French skiing. Sunday July 5, in the Jura, during a ski jump training, Thomas Lacroix, ex-doctor of the French Nordic ski team, was the victim of a fatal fall. A practitioner of French athletes at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games, the forties was placed in an artificial coma at the Besançon University Hospital (Doubs), where he died on Thursday, July 9.
A seasoned ski jumper, Thomas Lacroix fell when he received a jump Sunday morning on the Tuffes ski jump, in Prémanon, in the Jura resort of Les Rousses.
“Accidents as serious in jumping, it almost never happens, it is more frequent in descent or in bumps. The family of jumpers is very affected ”, explained the president of the FFS, Michel Vion, to France Bleu Besançon.
Wearing a helmet and exercising in good conditions, everything was there so that Thomas Lacroix could exercise his sport in total safety. The gendarmerie decided to open an investigation to determine the causes of this fall.
Thursday, French skiing was also struck by the terrible fall of the former descender Lionel Finance. Then became coach of the French women’s downhill team, the 50-year-old injured his spine after falling on the Pisaillas glacier, near the Iseran pass. Its vital prognosis is not engaged.
