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...races in the U.S., none at all in the Alps, was noted mainly for a helter-skelter skiing style that neatly matched his nickname: "Cyc," for cyclone. But last week Cyc Ferries was the sensation of the 1962 season. He had scored successive slalom victories at Austria's Kitzbühel and Italy's Cortina d'Ampezzo, was a solid favorite to capture the slalom again this week at the Fédération Internationale de Ski (F.I.S.) world championships in Chamonix, France...
...Aspen, Colo., to polish his technique. He improved so quickly that he decided to risk his savings on an Alpine tour. Ferries still shudders at the recollection. "I fell in all the down hills. I was tense, and my reflexes always failed." By 1960 Ferries was still falling-at Kitzbühel, St.-Moritz, Squaw Valley. At Stowe, Vt., he streaked through the slalom in record time-only to be disqualified for straddling the final gate...
Skiing had rarely seen anything like it: in three weeks Guy Périllat, 20, had won three international championships-at Switzerland's Wengen, Austria's Kitzbühel and France's Mégéve. Last week, as he returned from his triumphant tour to his native La Clusaz (pop. 1,200, including about 100 Périllats) in the French Alps, the whole town turned out to greet and acclaim the grinning, bull-necked man who is beyond dispute the king of the world's slopes...
Under Bonnet's coaching, Périllat took the Werigen, Kitzbühel and Megeve com petitions, three of Europe's biggest, with apparent ease, each time winning both the downhill race and the combined-events championship. His wins have made him a French national hero - a fact that Guy Périllat accepts calmly. Says he: "There's a time in life for everything. If my time for success is now. it's now. Everything else will take its place...
When the U.S. Olympic team arrived in Kitzbühel, Austria, the men rated scarcely a look. Against Europe's best, assembled to race in the famed Hahnenkamm meet, no one accorded them a chance. But the girls were another matter...