French Alpine skier Cyprien Sarrazin is expected to need several months to recover after sustaining a subdural hematoma — a collection of blood between the skull and the brain — in a Dec. 27 downhill training crash.

French skier Cyprien Sarrazin has been released from intensive care after sustaining a head injury in a crash last week.

French standout Cyprien Sarrazin is in intensive care with a head injury and will undergo surgery later Friday after a crash during training for a World Cup downhill race on the slope set to be used for the 2026 Winter Olympics.

French Alpine skier Cyprien Sarrazin sustained a subdural hematoma — a collection of blood between the skull and the brain — in a downhill training crash in Bormio, Italy, on Friday. Sarrazin, 30, was set to undergo surgery Friday night to drain the hematoma.

French standout Cyprien Sarrazin is awake and in stable condition a day after undergoing surgery on a head injury sustained in a crash during training for a World Cup downhill.

French skier Cyprien Sarrazin leaves intensive care after successful surgery to drain a bleed on his brain following a fall in training.

French skier Cyprien Sarrazin is stable and out of intensive care following a successful surgery to drain a bleed on his brain after falling while training for the World Cup downhill in Bormio, Italy,

French downhill specialist Cyprien Sarrazin is to be repatriated after coming out of intensive care in an Italian hospital where he had undergone surgery for head injuries, the French Ski Federation (FFS) announced Thursday.