Killy
Americannoun
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Austrian Toni Sailer and France's Jean-Claude Killy are the only other racers to have won a hat-trick of golds at a single Winter Olympics.
From Barron's • Feb. 11, 2026
Jean-Claude Killy, who won downhill gold at the Olympic Games in Grenoble in 1968, once compared to the event to “going down a flight of stairs on a banana peel.”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2022
Several racers had faster starts than Goggia, but no one matched the Italian’s pace on the more demanding sections of the O.K. course, which is named after French skiing greats Henri Oreiller and Jean-Claude Killy.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 18, 2021
French great Jean-Claude Killy took home four golds in 1968.
From Washington Times • Feb. 7, 2020
He made up his mind to make an arrangement with his creditors, giving up Biston, all his horses—everything, in fact, but Killy Marey, which was entailed on his Tracy cousins.
From My Young Alcides by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
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