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French skier Alexis Pinturault airlifted from course after super-G crash

French ski star Alexis Pinturault competes in a World Cup super-G race on Friday in Switzerland.
French ski star Alexis Pinturault competes in a World Cup super-G race on Friday in Switzerland. Photograph: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images

French ski star Alexis Pinturault crashed in a World Cup super-G race Friday and was airlifted from the course, six days after he became a father for the first time.

Pinturault, the overall World Cup champion in 2021 and a three-time Olympic medalist, crashing on landing the Silberhorn jump approaching the final section of the storied Lauberhorn course at Wengen.

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