Word: rillat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ease. Killy stood patiently at the starting gate, the picture of confidence as he awaited his turn and checked the speeds of competitors. He was No. 14, and by the time he pushed off, the run was rutted and choppy; the leader was his own teammate, Guy Périllat, who had started first and zipped down the 1.8-mile course in 1 min. 59.93 sec. "I knew Périllat's time," Jean-Claude said afterward. "I figured I had the race in hand." He did. His body tucked low to cut down wind resistance...
...sprinter and the agility of an acrobat; he must thread his way twice through the tortuous course at breakneck speed. He will have to stave off the challenge of such superb skiers as Austria's nimble Gerhard Nenning and France's bull-necked Guy Périllat-who swept every major Alpine title in 1961. Ferries will have to lick an old jinx: in 28 years of trying, no U.S. male skier has ever brought home an F.I.S. or Olympic Alpine championship. He may also have to beat the F.I.S.-which at week's end was threatening...
...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 week at Cortina, he picked up 1.4 sec. on his second pass, beat France's Charles Bozon by .4 sec. Said Ferries: "At the very least, you have to be confident...
...Position. Drafted into the French army last April, Périllat was sent to Algeria. But he was back with the first snows as a member of the Alpine troops, trained by Honore Bonnet, who by no coincidence is also coach of the French national ski team. It was Bonnet, along with Olympic Gold Medalist Vuarnet, who developed the "egg position" used by Périllat and the other members of the French team. The position, a sort of high, shoulder-down crouch, is so tiring to main tain that the French team members must take special exercises to build...
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...