Kevin Rolland (born 10 August 1989) is a French

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. He won the gold medal at the 2009 FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships in the halfpipe. He lost his title in 2011 to the Canadian Mike Riddle but still finished on the podium at the second place. Rolland has also won seven medals at the

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and two medals at the

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, including back-to-back golds in the SuperPipe at both events. Rolland also became the overall Winter Dew Tour Superpipe Champion in 2011. During the development of the open world

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'', several professional skiers, including Kevin Rolland and extreme sports athletes and experts were consulted by the developing team. Although hospitalised by a fall in 2019 which left him with head trauma, multiple contusions to his liver, kidneys, and lungs, and fractured his ribs and pelvis, Rolland made a comeback at the

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* * * * * 1989 births Living people French male freestyle skiers X Games athletes Superpipe skiers Freestyle skiers at the 2014 Winter Olympics Freestyle skiers at the 2018 Winter Olympics Freestyle skiers at the 2022 Winter Olympics Olympic freestyle skiers of France Medalists at the 2014 Winter Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for France Olympic medalists in freestyle skiing People from Bourg-Saint-Maurice Sportspeople from Savoie {{France-freestyle-skiing-bio-stub