A double on the legendary descent of Kitzbühel (Austria) was well worth it!
Cyprien Sarrazin, in addition to having completed an exceptional race pushing back the Swiss Marco Odermatt to more than 90 hundredths, did not miss his celebration.
Once the finish line was crossed, the first cries of joy launched, the Frenchman hastened to remove his skis to climb on the protective tubes located in front of the main stand.
With his two sticks at the ready, “Cyp” harangued the crowd for long seconds as if to shout with them the joy and happiness that inhabited him.
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“I really felt it,” he admitted after the finish, recounting having achieved the “run of his life”.
Then comes the time to detail the genesis of this celebration.
“I thought about it last night when I woke up between 2 and 4 a.m.,” he says.
I said to myself:
what could you do?
;
why not a bit like Marco (
Odermatt, 2nd today
) in Wengen, he jumped with his skis but I said to myself I'm going to do something even different, I'm going to climb on it!
".
In front of him, thousands of spectators saluted his incredible performance.
“It was just crazy to see the whole stand,” he was jubilant afterwards.
We're under pressure for two minutes, we've been under pressure for two weeks and then I knew I could let go of everything after having done the run of my life.
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“He’s a showman”
Down in the finish area, right in front of him, there is some of the French team staff but also the National Technical Director of the Federation, Fabien Saguez.
“It’s one of the greatest moments in the history of French skiing (…), when you know what the history of downhill in Kitzbühel represents, it’s exceptional.
He's a showman too, standing on the finish line, what power,” the leader savored afterwards.
There was also his teammate Adrien Théaux, who started four bibs before him and 30th in the race.
“He didn't give us a single scare today, he had good timing everywhere,” he admired. “His celebration at the end, that's him, that's his fun, that's my Cyp », concluded from Clermont-Ferrand (Puy-de-Dôme) her little sister Anésie, who was unable to make the trip.
His eldest hasn't finished celebrating.