My name is Kevin Rolland and I'm a professional skier
for almost like more than a decade by now.
So I started freestyle skiing when I was eight years old
in the ski club of La Plagne.
As long as I remember, I wanted to be in the air.
I just loved jumping.
Everybody was focused on the racing, how to carve.
I loved skiing,
but what I loved the most was to be in the air.
In the word there is "free,"
and that's why I love the freestyle skiing,
is that you can do what you want.
Every day I can improve and do something different.
So I was at a point of my career
where I mean, I podiumed pretty much every event
and I wanted something more.
I always wanted to try to break the world record
of the highest air in the quarter pipe.
And the goal was to go 11 meters
because the world record is at 10.5, kind of.
So what happened exactly
was that I was near to break the record
and I said, "Okay now, let's go for it!"
And I had a really, really bad crash.
I don't remember what happened. I was in a coma for three days.
I had a really bad trauma at my head,
so my lung was full of blood
and I broke eight ribs and I dislocated my pelvis.
I laid on the bed for like, yeah, 45 days.
And yeah, that was a really difficult,
a difficult part, but at the same time
my son Rio was just born, so I was happy actually.
I was happy because I was alive
and I was a dad for the first time.
And my son brings me so much positivity.
As soon as I wake up at the hospital, I asked the doctor,
when I can be back on my skis.
He tells me that if everything goes right, it's possible.
And "it's possible" means everything to me.
Four or five months after the crash,
I was already back on my skis.
And I didn't want to end my career
in a helicopter, an emergency helicopter.
I wanted to end my career in a competition.
So now the goal is to compete this winter
and then there is China, the Olympics.
It's for sure, it's in my mind and it's my goal.
Everything is possible.
If you want it, you need some resilience
and it's going to work.
Nothing is perfect all the way to the finish line.