His sprint season was due to start in ten days at Lake Louise, Canada. It is already finished. Val Thorens skier Adrien Théaux was seriously injured on Monday during a fall during training at Copper Mountain in the United States. He suffers from multiple fractures of his left elbow, right tibia and right ankle., and will therefore miss the Beijing Olympics in February 2022.
Operation and repatriation in France
Aged 37, Adrien Théaux was taken care of at the Vail clinic where he was operated on overnight. The French Ski Federation (FFS) specifies that he will be repatriated to France “as soon as possible“, in order to continue his convalescence.
Winner of three descents in the Alpine Skiing World Cup, bronze medalist in Super-G at the 2015 Worlds, the Savoyard was already seriously injured in January 2020 before returning to competition.