Magnificent images. Almost a year after coming close to death on December 27, 2024 by falling heavily during training preceding the World Cup downhill in Bormio (Italy), Cyprien Sarrazin put his skis back on.
The speed event specialist revealed it this Thursday morning by posting a video on his Instagram account. Indeed, the double downhill winner in Kitzbühel (Austria) staged, via a short documentary, his return to the slopes which took place on Monday December 8 in Courchevel.
“The sensations were good… nothing can match that,” wrote the 31-year-old alpine skier in the caption of his post. “I did well to take my time. I may not yet realize how far I have come so far… probably because there is still a long way to go before I can ski again as I would like, without pain in my knees,” he explained.
“I could have never skied again”
As a reminder, Sarrazin suffered a brain hemorrhage as well as other injuries to a leg and a foot after his heavy fall. Placed briefly in an artificial coma, the native of Gap had spent many days hospitalized in intensive care. Miraculous according to the doctors in his care, he also spent a long period in a neurological hospital to treat his diplopia, an eye disorder causing double vision, another after-effect of his accident.
“I forget that I could have never skied again, it’s crazy,” says the French skier in his video. “I have the banana, it lasts, it passes, I can ski. When I got back on the skis, I felt like I had never stopped,” he said.
If he has indicated that he wants to return to competition during the 2026-2027 season, Sarrazin has therefore passed a new stage in his process of returning to the highest level, after working for many months in rehabilitation and then in reathletics.
