Cross-country skiing: the French women’s team loses Flora Dolci, a major asset
A major blow for the French women’s cross-country skiing team. This Monday, L’Equipe revealed that Flora Dolci, one of the leaders of the Haut-Alpes squad, has withdrawn for the Olympic season.
The victim of a serious paragliding accident on Thursday, her 26th birthday, she suffered a fractured lumbar vertebra and underwent surgery on Friday in Grenoble (Isère).
There was a risk of neurological after-effects,” Thibault Barbe, the French cross-country skiing team doctor, told us. She’s fine, she’s walking. In view of the surgery, we estimate that it will take six months for her to return to 100% of her full potential.
As a result, Flora Dolci is already forced to draw a line under her winter and will miss the Milan/Cortina 2026 Olympic Games. ” We’re torn between relief that it wasn’t more serious and sadness for everything we’d put into the Olympic project,” says coach Alexandre Pouyé.
