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French freeskier Tess Ledeux has to miss the Winter Games in Italy.
The 2022 Olympic silver medallist in Big Air has not yet recovered sufficiently from a concussion suffered last March.
"I will be taking this season off to complete the healing process," explained the 24-year-old 2017 Slopestyle World Champion and two-time World Champion in Big Air (2019, 2023) at a media conference on Thursday.
This means Mathilde Gremaud, Olympic champion in slopestyle four years ago in Beijing and third in big air behind Ledeux, has one less serious competitor.