Killy
Americannoun
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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
“It was a great image. When you go back to the times of Karl Schranz and Jean-Claude Killy, they were the heroes, they were the stars,” said Markus Waldner, FIS men’s race director.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 6, 2021
French great Jean-Claude Killy took home four golds in 1968.
From Washington Times • Feb. 7, 2020
Peter said that he supposed that this was so, but all the time he kept thinking what a pity it was that Killy ever killed his feathered neighbors.
From The Burgess Bird Book for Children by Burgess, Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo)
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