France's leading sports media, L’Equipe reminded its readers that Candide is "the French skiing legend, from who each new video is an event" (15), and the country's specialized ski website Skieur said, "once again he wins his crazy bet to impress us, to make us forget his last video and to once again push back the limits of what is possible" (17). The French language Swiss news website La Côte also mentioned Candide, "setting the bar in the stratosphere" in the title of its article and noted the viral performance of the video reporting that "at 8pm, barely two hours after it had been posted online, the video had already been viewed more than 2.2 million times on his Facebook page and more than 2 million times on the specialized platform Zapiks". (26)