"All that for that ... all the work for months and months, the hours on the skis, in the weights, in perspiring, in suffering which evaporate suddenly ... what a waste!", Writes the 32-year-old skier, a combined bronze medalist at the 2018 Games in Pyeongchang, who "won't have the chance to relive (his) Olympic dream, for this time at least."
In a long message, he explained that he "did not get on" during the Zagreb slalom, finally stopped after the passage of 19 skiers due to the very bad condition of the track, but to have been directly victim of these conditions already denounced by several competitors.
"It gave way under my pressure, I was unbalanced and all of my upright ski came to a complete stop in a weird and uneven snowfall. I immediately felt a big lever arm. , a feeling in my shoe and it broke my fibula, "he said.
Victor Muffat-Jeandet will be operated next week by Dr Bertrand Sonnery-Cottet, to "put screws to consolidate the fracture", and will therefore "not be on skis for several months".
Very angry with the organizers of Zagreb and the International Ski Federation, he said he accepted "the risks and injuries" inherent in skiing.
"But it is sure that getting seriously injured in slalom for the first time in your life in 20 years on a track where the number 19 ends up on the grass, it is necessarily a little sobering", he added.
"The business will continue to turn with other pawns, there will be other + cannon fodder + to serve the multiple interests above the athlete (...) All our athlete representatives are breaking their teeth and throwing the sponge over the years, "he concluded.
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