The 32-year-old Frenchman, combined world champion last winter, fell after a poor recovery on a jump on the legendary Lauberhorn slope. “Ouch ouch ouch,” he could be heard shouting on the images broadcast by television. The race was interrupted while Alexis Pinturault was evacuated by helicopter. His fall today risks being synonymous with the end of the season for the skier, who has been a father for a few days. Thursday on the same Wengen slope, he had signed the best result of his career in downhill (9th), he who now wants to exist in the premier discipline of skiing. He “suffers from his left knee and pain in his wrist,” said the media manager of the French Ski Federation, specifying that Pinturault had been evacuated to Interlaken hospital and that he had not lost consciousness. .
The end of the day risks being synonymous with the end of the season for the skier, who has been a father for a few days. Thursday on the same Wengen slope, he had signed the best result of his career in downhill (9th), he who now wants to exist in the premier discipline of skiing. After 25 bibs, Frenchman Cyprien Sarrazin achieved the best time in this super-G and is heading straight for a third World Cup victory.
