Communicating with fists...

The French ski instructors association is loosely ran by its ski school directors, and one week or so ago, one of them couldn't find the right words to answer a complaint about mandatory retirement by one of its members and outstanding skier, Jean-Philippe Sanson, former French ski team member that I had met 43 years ago in Australia.

So when the argument escalated, insults began to fuse, plates began to fly and gestures took over as no one seemed to find the right words, Monsieur Cyprien Durand, Megève's ski school director (yeah, the famous French ski resort), used his physical superiority to forcefully make his point and in the process demolished the plaintiff's face.

The poor Sanson was hospitalized for a week and will need to undergo reconstructive surgery. He's suing his aggressor, who – in my opinion - should flee France and join ISIS where he will be fully able to express himself in his own savage style!