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...American injuries, plus an un accountably bad showing by the Austrian team, turned the world championships into a French snowball. Marielle Goitschel won both the ladies' giant slalom and the women's combined championship. Annie Famose won the ladies' special slalom, and Jean-Claude Killy streaked down the 1.7-mile course at an average speed of 63 m.p.h. to take the men's downhill. Then the "old man" of the French team, 26-year-old Guy Perillat, a shopkeeper from Chamonix who had never won a world title before, beat Killy at his own specialty...
...Jean-Claude Killy, 23, and Marielle Goitschel, 21, the French were heavy favorites at Portillo. U.S. hopes ran high, too, for a team that Coach Bob Beattie said was in the "best condition ever." Vermont's Billy Kidd, 23, was back in form, recovered from an ankle injury that had forced him out of competition after a series of spectacular victories in Europe last winter. And the rest of the U.S. squad had been training steadily for a full year - at a cost of some...
Married. Christine Goitschel, 21, older of two French sisters currently considered the world's best female skiers, each with a 1964 Olympic gold medal to her credit; and Jean Beranger, 28, her skiing coach; in Val-d'Isère, France...
...France: the Werner Cup, symbolic of the American International Team Ski Championship, at Sun Valley, Idaho. Led by pert, 20-year-old Marielle Goitschel, who won both the slalom and giant slalom and finished third in the women's downhill, the French ended with 206 points to Austria's 198. The U.S. team wound up fifth...
With her wedding only two months away, French Olympic Slalom Champion Christine Goitschel, 21, was treating the slopes gingerly. "I am afraid of falling and getting hurt," she told a teammate at Méribel in the French Alps. Next morning while Christine and her fiancé, Team Trainer Jean Béranger, were studying the course, a vacationing Austrian lost control of her skis at 50 m.p.h. and plowed into the bride-to-be, breaking her right leg and ankle. Ah well, cracked Christine's sister Marielle, herself a slalom champion: "A white plaster cast...