A native of Les Saisies, Piccard won a total of four Alpine Skiing World Cup races.

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.

First excellent success was winning a gold-medal in the downhill race in the FIS Alpine skiing Junior World Championships 1982 at Auron.

At the begin of his skiing career he did prefer starting in Downhill and Super-G races, later he changed to the giant slalom.

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