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...done; the imperturbable Stenmark overtook Mahre in the second run and snared the gold by half a second. Still, Mahre's silver made him only the third American man ever to win an Olympic alpine skiing medal of any kind. (Billy Kidd took a silver and Jimmy Heuga a bronze in the slalom at Innsbruck in 1964, the only other medalists.) Mahre went over and congratulated Stenmark, and then the two super skiers, who used to train together, sat side by side in the sun like old friends and watched the rest of the competition...
...Valley, Calif. Beaten by his French teammate, Georges Maudit, in another giant slalom race the day before, Killy zipped through the 57 gates in 1 min. 32 sec. to beat Maudit by 1 sec. Another French skier, Leo LaCroix, finished third, and the top American, California's Jimmy Heuga, wound up fourth...
...wasn't supposed to work out that way. At the 1964 Winter Olympics, the U.S. scored a major breakthrough when Billy Kidd and Jimmy Heuga placed two-three in the special slalom and Jean Saubert won two medals by herself...
...Jimmy Heuga, 20: the Kandahar men's combined championship, at Garmisch-Partkenkirchen, Germany...
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