There will be no Sarrazin-Odermatt duel this weekend!
Injured during training, the Frenchman, winner of four Alpine Skiing World Cup stages this winter, was forced to withdraw from the Kvitfjell stage in Norway.
Two descents were organized there.
Cyprien Sarrazin, who notably won Kitzbühel twice this season, unfortunately fell during the second training session organized this Friday, February 16 in the Norwegian resort and “suffers from trauma to the left calf”, indicates the Federation French ski resort.
“New examinations are underway,” she specifies in a press release.
This is also the case for Maxence Muzaton, who returned to France.
The skier from La Plagne (Savoie) fell during the first training and did not start training this Friday.
He suffers from “trauma to his left leg and right shoulder”.
In their absence, the leader of the Blues will be Nils Allègre, winner of the Super-G in Garmisch-Partenkirchen (Germany) at the end of January.
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With this package, Cyprien Sarrazin risks losing valuable points in the race for the small downhill globe.
Before this stage, he was only six points behind the Swiss Marco Odermatt, also leader in the general classification of the World Cup.
If his injury turns out to be not serious, Cyprien Sarrazin should meet his rival in Saalbach in Austria in a month, for the grand finals of the season.