Won the Winter Olympics gold medal in Sochi at snowboard cross just two months after tearing his anterior cruciate ligament, an injury which can take an athlete up to nine months to recover from. Vaultier’s career has suffered over the years because of injury. In December 2008 he suffered a lumbar fracture in training and missed most of the season.
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