“Crazy”, “something crazy”, “a kiff”.
Cyprien Sarrazin is jubilant and savors the incredible feat he has just achieved.
After a first victory on Friday on the first of the two Kitzbühel descents, the 29-year-old Frenchman literally outclassed his opponents on Saturday, winning the second after almost a second ahead of Marco Odermatt.
Before going to try to fulfill one of the other objectives of the weekend, a photo with Arnold Schwarzenegger, “Cyp” delivered himself.
Should we call it a masterpiece after your descent today?
CYPRIAN SARRAZIN.
Does that mean I'm an artist?
I don't know but it's just crazy!
I had fun, in any case I showed you what I liked to do and how I like to do it.
It's up to you to say what it was but for me it was a blast.
Were you aware of Marco Odermatt's result and times before your departure?
Marco, he was starting right in front of me so I couldn't see or hear but I just heard
wow, wow
like he was making little mistakes but the time was incredible.
So I told myself that he had had a big run but I stayed focused on myself.
I told myself:
do your run, be safe.
I
really wanted to be
safe
today, to arrive at the bottom on my own two legs.
And then it did something crazy, I felt really good.
Did you feel like you were running such a race?
Yes, a bit the same as in Bormio (
he won the downhill last December 28
).
I really felt it.
I hold out my hand at the finish, I keep it not too far away, I see green and I screamed.
And the celebration, I thought about it last night when I woke up between 2 and 4 a.m.
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 for something even different, I'm going to climb on it!
It was just crazy to see the whole stand.
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.
How did you feel this morning physically and nervously, the day after your first victory here?
I wasn't tired.
I worked hard this morning, I did everything I needed to and I got back into my routine.
But last night I really had trouble falling asleep, after I did sleep I think I slept really well.
It was all
good vibes
and today, once again, I had a blast.
Everything went perfectly, easily.
𝐔𝐍 𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐅-𝐃'𝐎𝐄𝐔𝐕𝐑𝐄: MONSIEUR CYPRIEN SARRAZIN 🇫🇷 CUTS THE STREIF (AGAIN)!
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Yesterday you said you didn't shed a tear, what about today?
I cried last night in my bed.
Today I didn't cry either.
But it was when I read certain messages from certain people that I shed a little tear last night in my bed alone.
You said that Wengen (with his triple podium) had been crazy.
What is Kitzbühel?
Fucking Awesome!
Many observers, many foreigners, say that it is one of the most beautiful runs they have seen in the last fifteen, twenty years...
That's the best compliment anyone can give me.
Doing that, yeah... That's it, maybe I'm an artist indeed.
I cut curves, it's what I love to do and it's what I live for.
You still scrape a few points from Marco Odermatt in the Downhill World Cup rankings… How are you going to organize the rest of the season?
Now, I'm focused this evening, on going drinking and partying (
laughs
)!
More seriously, I'm going to stay calm this week and then do the two Super-Gs in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, then Chamonix and Kjitvell and then we're thinking perhaps of the giant to perhaps go to the United States to fill this long month without descent.
In Chamonix at the beginning of February, at home, downhill, something incredible can happen...
No limits !