 At the 1988 Olympics in Calgary he won a gold medal in the Super-G competition (the first winter Olympic gold-medal for a French athlete since ski racer Jean-Claude Killy in 1968, who became a three-times gold-medallist) and a bronze medal in the downhill.At the 1992 Olympics in Albertville he won a silver medal in the downhill.He also could achieve a bronze-medal in the Super-G-Race at the FIS Alpine Skiing World Championships 1991.