France finds Brice Roger and loses Cyprien Sarrazin: malleolus fracture for gigantist

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While the sprinter returned to skiing today in Les Deux Alpes, his teammate was injured in Zermatt. No surgery and Soelden saves, but he will have to sit still for at least 45 days.

Thursday 30 July 2020 3 minutes reading time

Good news and definitely bad news. For the Team de France, it was a day in the swing with the expected return on skis of Brice Roger, the talented sprinter who had been an excellent protagonist last season up to the injury suffered in the second downhill race in Bormio, which the forced the 2019/2020 vintage early due to left knee problems. Today the 29 year old from Bourg Saint Maurice has put his skis back on for the first time in 7 months, on the Les Deux Alpes glacier, but at the same time the transalpine team has lost Cyprien Sarrazin. As reported by "Ski Chrono", the results of the exams that the Gap class '94 underwent after the fall remedied last Sunday, in training with the national team in Zermatt, arrived. There is talk of a fracture in the right ankle, specifically in the posterior malleolus: fortunately composed and without the need for surgery that would have lengthened the time. Therefore expected 45 days in the pits, but for the opening in Soelden, Sarrazin should be there to try to look for another podium in the World Cup after the one conquered, always among the wide doors, last December in Alta Badia, on the Gran one Risa that in parallel giant gave him, three years earlier, the first and only success in his career.

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