“I can’t wait to see the French shine! This is perhaps the first time in twenty years, since the accident, that I am so impatient for it to begin…” During the Milan Olympics, which open this Friday February 6, Sandra Laoura, 45, hopes to thrill to the exploits of the Blues. In 2006, it was she who thrilled the French supporters by winning bronze in Turin in mogul skiing, the first in a fine line of French medals in the discipline.
An indescribable happiness engraved in her but short-lived on the scale of a lifetime. Eleven months after the Italian ecstasy, a terrible fall on her back during training in Canada made her lose the use of her legs and confined her to a wheelchair.
