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 ...
When the International Ski Federation issued its seedings for 1968, France’s Jean-Claude Killy, 24, became the first skier in history to rank No. 1 in all three categories: slalom, giant slalom and ...
Jean-Claude Killy (born August 30, 1943) is a former French World Cup alpine ski racer. Born in Saint-Cloud, Hauts-de-Seine, he dominated the sport in the late 1960s. He was a triple Olympic champion, ...
BERLIN, March 28 (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 ...
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 ...