Killy
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Sailer won the downhill, giant slalom and slalom races at the 1956 Cortina Olympics, a feat mirrored by Killy at the 1968 Grenoble Games.
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
Only Alpine ski greats Jean-Claude Killy, Ingemar Stenmark, Ted Ligety and Marcel Hirscher have won at least four of the first five giant slaloms in a World Cup season.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 8, 2022
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 Charlotte Mary Yonge
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