Word: goitschel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...young Californian won the Kandahar special slalom, placed second in the giant slalom, easily beat France's Leo Lacroix for the combined title. Another U.S. winner: Oregon's lean Saubert, 21, who won the Kandahar women's slalom, beating France's Olympic Champion Marielle Goitschel...
...CHRISTINE and MARIELLE GOITSCHEL, sisters from Val d'Isére, France, poled and skated their way through the ladies' slalom, finished first and second. In third place: Oregon's Jean Saubert, the pre-race favorite. Afterward, stocky Marielle Goitschel, 18, demonstrated that she can handle herself as well off the course as on. Angry at an Austrian policeman who was pushing French Coach Henri Bonnet around, Marielle uncorked a haymaker square on the point...
...Oregon's Jean Saubert, 21: the special slalom at the women's Silver Jug ski races, in Bad Gastein, Austria. Only U.S. female skier to win a race in Europe this winter (she has now won four), Jean beat France's Marielle Goitschel by about 1 sec., and established herself as a heavy favorite to win either or both slalom events at the Olympics in Innsbruck next week...
...Awful Fast." The courses were icy and treacherous-the worst many skiers had ever seen. On her first run in the special slalom, Jean caught an edge and finished 5 sec. behind France's Marielle Goitschel. "I'll have to go awful fast on the second run," she said-and onlookers gasped as she zipped through the 52 gates in the fastest time of the day, only to be disqualified for missing a gate. That was just a tune-up. Next day, in the giant slalom-a combination slalom and downhill that demands sheer straightaway speed as well...