For Jean-Luc Crétier, the new year 2026 did not start well, with an operation on his left knee on January 2. If he hopes to recover by the end of the month, he is fighting another fight underground: to regain his gold medal in downhill at the Olympic Games in Nagano (Japan) in 1998.
A real feat for the Albertvillois who joined in the Pantheon of French sport a certain Jean-Claude Killy, crowned thirty years earlier in Grenoble. After being robbed in June 2024, the French skier finally decided to publicize the affair in the hope of finding his property.
