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French skier Kevin Rolland faced fear at Olympics three years after crash

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(BEIJING) — Kevin Rolland, a French halfpipe star, found out how dangerous and unforgiving a discipline freestyle skiing can be after a serious fall in April 2019.

The freestyle-skiing champion and five-time X Games gold medalist had been training to break the world record of the highest jump, around 36 feet. After a fall, he suffered head trauma, had multiple contusions to his liver, kidneys and lungs, and fractured his ribs and pelvis, he said.

“The doctor was telling me that it might be over, I’m not going to be a skier anymore, I have to think about something

 

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