French ski team politics

For years, Cyprien Richard has been one of the top GS skier France had to offer. A silver world championship medal and a world cup victory in 2011, several 3 places the years before and always in the top 15 in recent seasons, should have secured the 35 year old a ticked to Sochi, even as a potential replacement.

Instead, he was asked to stay in his Morzine hometown and wait for the Team's phone call. To me, this sucks, because today's Pinturaults and other Fanaras, owe it to Richard to have helped paved the way for them and bring up arguably the strongest male GS ski team in the world. Not a nice way to say “thanks!”