Although Jean-Claude Killy entered the 1968 Winter Games without any Olympic medals, the Frenchman was the heavy favorite amongst the male Alpine skiers in Grenoble. Despite controversy in the slalom ...
Of the many heroes at the 1968 Win ter Olympics, the man who stands above all is a moody, onetime consumptive who complains of a nervous stomach and insomnia, and likes to talk in par ables. “When I ...
On a training run earlier, he’d grabbed the wrong pair. “I offered to hurry and wax them,” recalls then French team trainer Rene Sulpice, 73, “but he just waved it off and said, ‘We’ll manage.'” ...
Jean-Claude Killy and Guy Drut both claimed that Annecy had both fallen behind rivals Munich and Pyeongchang. Killy said Grospiron, the 1992 Olympic moguls champion who leads the Annecy bid, is "an ...
French ski great Jean-Claude Killy has resigned as a member of the International Olympic Committee, declaring it’s time to move on after spending the past seven years heading the oversight panel for ...
BERLIN (Reuters) - Former Olympic skiing champion Jean-Claude Killy, who oversaw preparations for the Sochi Games and was an International Olympic Committee member for two decades, bowed out on Friday ...
Legends recognize legends: pioneering freestyle skier Wayne Wong wished Jean-Claude Killy a happy birthday yesterday, August 31st, with a classic vintage clip from Assignment K2. See the video and ...
Whether it be Alysa Liu's sparkling figure skating gold, the Swiss men's alpine skiing domination or Lindsey Vonn's horrific ...