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...name in skiing. She won four out of seven races against Europe's best (TIME, Jan. 20). Then she went home, and the French took over. Coach Honore Bonnet's charges won practically everything in sight: Jean-Claude Killy sewed up the World Cup for men; Marielle Goitschel and Annie Famose fought a ding-dong battle for the women's championship. Even after competition moved to the U.S. last month and Nancy got back into action, her chances of overcoming the French girls' lead in the standings seemed remote. Going into the final event...
...downhill, thereby clinching the 1967 World Cup. Behind him came Georges Mauduit, second in the giant slalom, and Guy Perillat, second in the downhill. In the women's events France's Isabelle Mir won the women's downhill, Christine Beranger the giant slalom, and Marielle Goitschel the slalom. Last week Bonnet took his forces on to Vail, Colo., for the American Internationals Team Race. The in evitable result: Killy repeated his triple triumph, and France won still another team championship...
...season was supposed to be a la France. At last year's world championships in Portillo, Chile, French women won eight out of twelve medals; and just this month, Coach Honore Bonnet told reporters that the only question was which of his two best girls-Marielle Goitschel or Annie Famose-would win this year's World Cup. That was before Nancy Greene spotted Annie almost a full second in the first run of the special slalom at Oberstaufen, Germany, two weeks ago, only to beat her by 2 sec. on the second trip down the course...
...week's end Nancy, a freshman at Notre Dame University of Nelson, B.C., had won four out of the five major European races so far this season. In competition for the World Cup, she had 100 points compared with 60 for Annie and 40 for Marielle Goitschel...
...even lift her arm," recalls her coach, Verne Anderson, "but we couldn't keep her out of the giant slalom, so the doctor shot her full of Novocain, and I taped her ski pole to her glove." Nancy finished fourth, only 2.7 sec. behind Winner Marielle Goitschel...