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Austrian officials, fearful that the French team's success will deflate Austria's winter tourist trade, are groaning even louder. Last month, in fact, Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky called an emergency meeting in Kitzbühel to decide how to stop the French. The only sure way is to kidnap French Ski Director Jean Béranger. Women's team coach for nine years before succeeding Honoré Bonnet as head coach this season, Béranger is no stickler for style. He believes in "doing things empirically. A skier's morphology, his character, his personality...
...doing just that by carving bold, ultramodern, eminently convenient resorts out of empty mountain space. The most popular resorts-Flaine, Avoriaz, Les Arcs and La Plagne -are located in the Savoie region; generally, the slopes they offer are every bit as formidable as the more famous runs at Kitzbühel and St. Moritz. Crisscrossed with the latest in téléphériques (cabin lifts), garlanded with heated swimming pools, bedecked with strobe-lighted discotheques, the swinging new French resorts have an allure of adventure and practicality all their own. How many ski resorts offer...
...downhill races and twelve combined championships. Last year he shattered all previous records by entering 32 races and winning 23. In a sport where victory or defeat is usually a matter of split seconds, his winning margins were all but incredible: almost two seconds in the special slalom at Kitzbühel, Austria, three seconds in the downhill at Megève, France. With the maximum possible score of 225 points, he skied off with the World Cup, the supreme trophy of the sport...
...existed. Some might call that ignorant or childish or foolhardy, but within the special company of downhill racers, Bud Werner won only admiration and respect. Austrians called him "the cowboy from Colorado"; autographed photos of his boyish face decorated the walls of stores and inns in ski towns like Kitzbühel and Bad Gastein...
...Caution. Despite his mounting misfortunes, Ferries refused to change his daredevil racing style. "In this game," he explains, "you can't afford to be cautious. You just have to go as fast as you can." Now Ferries has finally found the control to match his speed. At Kitzbühel fort night ago, he ranked eighth in the slalom after a mediocre 77.2-sec. first pass at the course. On his second run, Ferries clocked a sizzling 69.7 sec.-fastest time of the day-to eke out a .7-sec. victory over France's Périllat. Last...