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...Eulogy By MARIELLE GOITSCHEL, French Olympic gold medal skier...
When Jean-Claude Killy and Marielle Goitschel retired after their stunning victories in the 1968 Winter Olympics. French competitive skiing seemed to have been set back for years. Not so. In this season's World Cup competition, the French have already produced a dozen or more brilliant young skiers who are all but sweeping their rivals off the slopes. At Murren. Switzerland, last week, the French speedsters won three events, to give their team a record total of 20 victories in 31 races so far this season. Says one jubilant French fan: "It's not a case...
THROUGHOUT the late 1960s, the increasingly popular sport of alpine skiing was almost totally dominated by the French. Led by the incomparable Jean-Claude Killy and the Goitschel sisters, French ski teams demonstrated their superiority on nearly every snowcapped peak in Europe and the U.S. So it stands to reason that France would also want to capture national honors in the race for the growing ski-resort trade. That is precisely what it is doing. Splashy, audaciously conceived resorts are sprouting all along the French Alpine timberline and drawing thousands of snow worshipers away from the established ski enclaves...
...giant slalom and a sil ver in the slalom. Next, in the Arlberg-Kandahar at Chamonix, she won the downhill, slalom and combined trophies. When the tour moved to the U.S., she won all three events at Aspen, Colo. slalom, giant slalom and downhill beating France's Marielle Goitschel by a 1.67-sec. margin in the giant slalom...
...week, pressing extra hard before the home folks at Rossland, Nancy caught a ski tip on a gate and fell in the sla lom. Even so, she still held a commanding lead in the battle for the World Cup, with 176 points to 150 for Mir and 128 for Goitschel...