1 00:09:02,293 --> 00:09:04,251 Candide is a real character. 2 00:09:05,084 --> 00:09:06,876 At school or skiing, 3 00:09:07,084 --> 00:09:09,793 he was always full of energy. 4 00:09:28,918 --> 00:09:32,376 He raced down stairs, fell off bunks... 5 00:09:32,543 --> 00:09:34,418 He always had bumps! 6 00:09:48,876 --> 00:09:52,168 He tried everything, he loved hockey. 7 00:09:52,959 --> 00:09:56,918 He'd be the only one lying on the floor! 8 00:09:57,126 --> 00:10:02,084 He'd be wiped out, sweating, that's how we recognised him! 9 00:10:02,293 --> 00:10:04,918 Candide started skiing 10 00:10:05,126 --> 00:10:06,543 at the age of 2. 11 00:10:06,709 --> 00:10:10,168 On mini skis, skiing over little moguls. 12 00:10:10,418 --> 00:10:13,918 When he was little, Raymond took his son skiing. 13 00:10:14,126 --> 00:10:17,584 I saw him with a little camcorder, maybe a Fuji... 14 00:10:17,793 --> 00:10:20,084 At the end of the season, I filmed his progress. 15 00:10:21,334 --> 00:10:23,918 It was fun seeing all that again. 16 00:10:51,584 --> 00:10:54,668 We soon saw that he was in his element. 17 00:10:54,834 --> 00:10:58,293 He competed and enrolled in acrobatic skiing. 18 00:10:58,459 --> 00:11:01,084 Slalom was never his thing. 19 00:11:01,334 --> 00:11:03,043 Tormented 20 00:11:03,584 --> 00:11:05,543 He was a big Olympic hope, 21 00:11:06,126 --> 00:11:08,584 incredibly talented. 22 00:11:08,751 --> 00:11:11,418 He won everything, and skied like no one else. 23 00:11:43,793 --> 00:11:48,209 Seeing Edgar Grospiron made me want to try... 24 00:11:48,376 --> 00:11:50,418 and it worked! 25 00:12:01,418 --> 00:12:05,084 He never followed his coach, always hung back. 26 00:12:05,251 --> 00:12:06,918 Out of sight, 27 00:12:07,126 --> 00:12:10,834 he'd do jumps, discretely... He did it all the time. 28 00:12:27,418 --> 00:12:30,543 Candide was like an extra-terrestrial. 29 00:12:30,751 --> 00:12:34,334 Even as a kid, he was amazing at freestyle. 30 00:12:42,126 --> 00:12:45,876 He had an incredible imagination. 31 00:12:46,501 --> 00:12:50,209 I think anything creative starts with the imagination. 32 00:36:27,709 --> 00:36:29,751 It was an L1 fracture, 33 00:36:29,959 --> 00:36:32,668 what we call an expansive fracture. 34 00:36:32,834 --> 00:36:35,126 Not only the back part 35 00:36:35,376 --> 00:36:38,168 of the spine was broken, 36 00:36:38,334 --> 00:36:41,168 but also the inner part, 37 00:36:41,376 --> 00:36:43,584 making the fracture very unstable. 38 00:36:43,751 --> 00:36:48,376 It was amazing that he didn't have neurological issues, 39 00:36:48,543 --> 00:36:51,001 since it was in L1, 40 00:36:51,168 --> 00:36:54,251 right by the spinal cord. 41 00:36:54,418 --> 00:36:57,834 A few millimetres more and he could've had neurological issues. 42 00:36:58,043 --> 00:37:00,376 He was incredibly lucky. 43 00:37:00,709 --> 00:37:04,043 The surgery involves an arthrodesis: 44 00:37:04,209 --> 00:37:06,793 we lay the broken spine 45 00:37:06,959 --> 00:37:10,043 supporting it from above and below 46 00:37:10,251 --> 00:37:12,293 and re-align it on the table, 47 00:37:12,459 --> 00:37:15,334 by introducing bolts and stems 48 00:37:15,501 --> 00:37:19,126 to restore the spine to its normal height. 49 00:47:03,668 --> 00:47:05,751 He made it because above all 50 00:47:05,918 --> 00:47:08,834 Candide is not a freestyler or freerider, he's a skier! 51 00:47:31,501 --> 00:47:32,959 That was amazing!