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https://www.lequipe.fr/Ski/Actualites/Le-skieur-francais-david-poisson-est-mort/850454
Bronze medalist at the 2013 Worlds and 35 years old, the descender David Poisson died Monday, during a fall in training in Canada, announced the French Ski Federation.
The French ski is mourning: David Poisson (35), member of the downhill team, died accidentally Monday after a fall, as announced by the French Federation in a statement. The skier was training at the Canadian Nakiska Station, a traditional base for preparing the Blues before the North American tour, which begins in Lake Louise in less than two weeks (November 25-26). The FFS did not elaborate further on the circumstances of the tragedy.
Devastated by this news, Michel Vion, President, Fabien Saguez, National Technical Director and all the sports and administrative staff of the Federation, join the pain of his relatives in these particularly difficult times, "writes she said in her statement.
A world medalist hard to evil
Nicknamed "Kaillou" ("It comes from Fish-Poiscaille-Poiscaillou-Caillou", he explained himself), the skier of Peisey-Nancroix (Savoie) was one of the veterans of this team of France, a key figure despite a busy career and disrupted by injuries. Some happened because this hard to evil was not used to calculate and sometimes paid for it by spectacular falls. In 2005, at Bormio, for his first Worlds at age 22, Poisson had yet had all good and finished ninth in downhill as in super-G. A promise partially confirmed in the rest of a career whose feats will remain this bronze medal won at the 2013 World Championships Schladming behind two heavyweights of speed, Aksel Lund Svindal and Dominik Paris.
David Poisson at the Schladming Worlds in 2013, where he was a bronze medalist. (J. Prévost / The Team)
David Poisson at the Schladming Worlds in 2013, where he was a bronze medalist. (J. Prévost / The Team)
A few weeks earlier, this skier with a hooker's physique (1.72m, 89kg) had finished at the foot of the podium in Kitzbühel, as if he better mastered the impulses of his big heart. "The galleys serve you for a moment," he confided after his world medal. At thirty, madness, you left it aside. (...) One says to me: "This medal, you deserve it" but everyone deserves it, "he added, faithful to his endearing character. Two years later, he finished third in the Santa Caterina downhill, the only World Cup podium of his career. He was since March 2016 father of a little boy. Two weeks before this tragic accident, David Poisson had lost his father, swept away by cancer.
The previous Cavagnoud
This accident reminds, of course, the one of which Régine Cavagnoud had been victim, disappeared on October 31st, 2001 following a fall in the training two days earlier on the Austrian glacier of Pitztal. A few months after winning the world super-G title, the Frenchwoman had violently hit a German coach, Markus Nawander, who was in the middle of the route.
