A dark weekend in the land of white gold for French skiing.
The Swiss Niels Hintermann won the downhill of Kvitfjell, in Norway, this Saturday, counting for the Alpine Skiing World Cup.
This is his third World Cup victory but only the first podium this season for the 28-year-old from Zurich, who beat the Austrian Vincent Kriechmayr and the Canadian Cameron Alexander.
But the most worrying thing is the fall of Frenchman Nils Allègre.
After the first findings, the native of Briançon suffered a sprain of the left knee and a contusion of the right shoulder.
He will return to France immediately to take exams in Lyon on Monday.
A tough return to earth for the man who, on January 24 for his 102nd World Cup start, and although he had never been on a podium, won his first victory during the Super-G in Garmisch-Paternkirchen.
Read alsoAlpine Ski World Cup: Cyprien Sarrazin withdraws from the Kvitfjell stage in Norway
Swiss prodigy Marco Odermatt, who was in a position to win the general classification of the Downhill World Cup for the first time in the event of victory, will still have to wait, having only been able to do better than seventh place.
The little globe of the downhill will therefore be played out during the World Cup finals in Saalbach (Austria), from March 16 to 24, between Odermatt and his French runner-up Cyprien Sarrazin, who withdrew on Saturday after being injured the day before in training. .
Following an ultrasound, Sarrazin suffered a muscular contusion of the internal gastrocnemius of his left leg.
The task therefore promises to be very complicated for the French skier because, with his seventh place on Saturday, Odermatt scored 36 additional points and increased his lead to 42 units over Sarrazin (552 points against 510).