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French skier able to leave halfpipe on his own after gruesome crash

He could be heard screaming in pain.
PYEONGCHANG-GUN, SOUTH KOREA - FEBRUARY 22: Paramedics attend to Kevin Rolland of France after he crashed during the Freestyle Skiing Men's Ski Halfpipe Final on day thirteen of the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games at Phoenix Snow Park on February 22, 2018 in Pyeongchang-gun, South Korea. (Photo by Matthias Hangst/Getty Images)

A French skier on the halfpipe could be heard screaming in pain as he hit the lip and tumbled more than 20 feet down to the bottom.

WATCH: Kevin Rolland takes terrifying spill in men's halfpipe

Ken Rolland was on his third run, and on his first jump, a double switch, he came down to close to the edge. His right leg bent underneath him as continued to fall on top of it. His right leg missed the edge, and that caused him to continue to fall after the initial hit.

Rolland was motionless for several seconds. The medical unit tended to him and brought out the stretcher. It appeared worse than it really was. Rolland was able to get up and ski to the end of the slope. He was greeted by other competitors.

Rolland is 28. The NBC announcers said before his run that he has dealt with several injuries, and couldn't turn his head to the right earlier in the week.

He told reporters after his run that he was more upset emotionally than he was physically, but he had a muscle tear in his pelvis, neck and back. It is unclear if he suffered any of those injuries because of the fall on Wednesday.

Rolland wasn't able to complete any of his runs during the final.

"I was very frustrated at not being able to offer at least one run, not going all the way down. Posed a lot of problems in the training. It was on this double switch that I went to the hospital, with a muscle tear, I knew that if I wanted to make a podium, I had to do it. It did not work," he said to reporters in French and was translated through Google Translate.

He won bronze at the 2014 games in Sochi. American David Wise won the gold medal in the event, and his teammate Alex Ferreira won the silver. Nico Porteous of New Zealand won bronze.

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