Word: alyeska
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there are signs of change. On the powder-covered slopes of Idaho's Sun Valley and Alaska's Mount Alyeska. U.S. skiers fought for places on the Olympic team that will travel to Innsbruck. Austria, in 1964. For the first time in years, an air of real optimism hung over the Olympic trials. Seven times last year. U.S. skiers beat Europe's best. And this year, their performance at Sun Valley and Mount Alyeska was so good that U.S. Olympic Coach Bob Beattie could predict: ''We've got a half-dozen skiers...
...WERNER. 27. of Steamboat Springs, Colo., swooshed boldly through Sun Valley's downhill course in 2 min. 20.5 sec. to beat (by .9 sec.) Switzerland's Jos Minsch-winner of Innsbruck's pre-Olympic race. Next day. Werner won again in the twisting slalom. At Mount Alyeska, he beat Minsch in the downhill-only to lose by a bare .1 sec. to another American. Plagued with bad luck. Werner took an inglorious spill in the 1956 Olympics, had to sit out the 1960 games with a broken leg. He intends to make...
WILLIAM MAROLT. 19. of Aspen. Colo., was the surprising youngster who beat both Werner and Minsch in Alaska by streaking over Mount Alyeska's 8.440-ft. downhill course at a speed of 44.7 m.p.h. Son of a bartender. Bill is a University of Colorado sophomore and the best new downhill prospect...
CHUCK FERRIES. 23. of Houghton. Mich., was the talk of Europe last year: he scored successive slalom victories at Austria's Kitzbuhel and Italy's Cortina, handily beating Europe's top skiers. Though not at his best at Sun Valley and Mount Alyeska (two fourths in the downhill). Ferries is a daredevil racer who has developed control to match his speed. "At the very least, you have to have confidence. I have...
...versatile skier who ranks among the world's best at all three Alpine events. The brown-haired Oregon State coed swept to victory in both the downhill and the slalom at Sun Valley, beating Germany's Barbi Henneberger, one of Europe's best. Then at Mount Alyeska, she won the giant slalom...