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...extra push, that triple first ranking puts triple pressure on Jean-Claude. In the season's first big race at Val d'Isère, Killy came in fourth behind Austria's Gerhard Nenning, another Frenchman and another Austrian. In the second big meet at Hindelang, he placed second in the two slaloms, both of which were won by Switzerland's unheralded Edmund Bruggmann. At après-ski parties, the buzz began: was something wrong with Killy? The answer from the French: don't be silly...
...sophomore at the University of Colorado, Kidd, 22, finished second in the special slalom at Innsbruck in 1964, thus becoming the first American ever to win an Olympic medal in men's skiing. Two weeks ago, in the season's first big meet at Hindelang, Germany, he was up against the fastest man in Europe: France's Jean-Claude Killy, 22, winner of seven major slalom races in 1965. SURPRISE AT HINDELANG read the next day's headline in France's sports daily, l'Equipe, as Kidd, trailing Killy by most of a full...
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