Adrien Théaux (37) suffered a heavy fall on Monday in training in Copper Mountain (Colorado) where many national teams are present before the start of the sprint season in ten days in Lake Louise (Canada).
The descender made an inside fault in the final wall of a track, and hit the protective nets.
He suffers from a fractured left elbow, right tibia and right ankle.
He was quickly taken care of at the Vail clinic, where he was operated on overnight Monday to Tuesday, said the French Ski Federation (FFS). He will be repatriated to France as soon as possible. His season is over, and questions arise as to the rest of his career due to his age.
Adrien Théaux, winner of three World Cup descents and bronze medalist of the 2015 Worlds in super-G, was already returning from a serious injury that occurred on January 11, 2020 in training: rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament of the right knee, fracture the lower end of the femur as well as the internal tibial plateau.
“I did not want to stop with an injury, underlined the skier born in Tarbes (Hautes-Pyrénées) during a training course last summer.
I wanted to come back to the top level, I still have things to do.
I'm not at all telling myself that this is my last season.
I take things as they come.
There are the Games (Editor's note: from February 4 to 20 in Beijing), it motivates me, a victory or a podium in the World Cup, it motivates me too.
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