Word: skier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Henri. Upsets were frequent in the winter Olympics' final days. The highly touted U.S. two-man bobsledders got whipped. So did France's curvaceous Georgette Thiellière-Miller, regarded as the world's best woman skier. But a flashy countryman of hers-Henri Oreiller, a 21-year-old sunburnt peasant boy from Val d'Isère-was the only person to win two gold medals in 1948's winter Olympics. He hurtled a snow-covered slope to win the men's downhill, and won the Alpine Combined event, too. Swedes kept grinding...
...Sweden's husky Martin Lundstroem, who plowed his way to victory in the 11.2-mile cross-country ski race. Nineteen of the first 20 to finish were Scandinavians; the first U.S. skier came in 65th. ¶t]J Switzerland's Felix Endrich, 26, who zoomed down the perilous bobsled course (sometimes at close to 80 m.p.h.) to win the boblet (two-man sled) crown from his coach, Fritz Feierabend...
Rope tows flying faster than any in the States lead to practice slopes where John Fripp conducts a ski school along the same lines as Hannes Schneider's at Cranmore. Trails for every range of skier, expert, intermediate, and novice, if he can ride out the tows, are represented...
Vertical, tree-studded slopes are the bane of western skiers from Seattle to San Bernardino along the Pacific side of the Sierras. Further inland, however, the mountain tops rise above the timber line, providing countless open runs for the energetic skier...
Nearby is Snow Valley, the skier's Coney Island. Broad snow-covered highways of novice and intermediate difficulty, run from the unloading stations of two lifts and two tows...