Alpine skiing: concussion, broken nose and knee injury in Muffat-Jandet

However, things started well this Saturday for Victor Muffat-Jandet and his number 21. The Frenchman, who has recovered from an injury that kept him out of last year’s Games, finished 7th in the first round of the giant Adelboden in Switzerland. Alas, during the second race, he crashed very, very badly.

The Savoy lost his balance and hit his head hard on the ground. He ended his fall, held by safety nets at the edge of the runway, with blood on his face and hand. The medical team quickly intervened and evacuated him on a stretcher.

The French skier was injured in the nose and arm, as well as a concussion. During the intervention of emergency services, the race had to be interrupted for a long time, which caused concern of the audience, shocked by the brutality of the images. Victor Muffat-Jandet was then airlifted to a hospital in Bern.

He was recovering from injury after a hard fall last year.

According to the French Ski Federation, he was “successfully operated on due to a broken nose”. The 2018 Olympic bronze medalist, aged 33, “will be repatriated” within a day to France for an “additional examination” of his left knee, still according to the FFS. This Sunday he was scheduled to take part in the Adelboden slalom and was replaced by Leo Anguenot, 16th in Saturday’s giant.

A year ago, almost to the day, Muffat-Jandet had already experienced a terrible fall. During the Zagreb slalom, he fractured the fibula of his right leg, which ruled him out of the 2022 Beijing Olympics.