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 (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, ...