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...example, they finished first, second, third, fourth and fifth. No matter that France's top women's slalomist, Ingrid Lafforge, has been sidelined for the season with a broken leg. Led by Michele Jacot, 19, the women's team has no fewer than 14 crack skiers who are capable of winning on any given day, including a 15-year-old sensation, Jocelyne Périllat, who is being heralded by the French press as the "super champion of tomorrow." The French team is so steeped in talent that nine women and seven men have shared the team...
Saturday was a disaster for the Crimson. Watson fell on his first run of the giant slalom, and O'Rear was the only Harvard skier to complete two runs, finishing tenth...
Despite his age, William Jacobson, 60, had no qualms last month when he joined the nation's 3,500,000 skiers. A recently retired California forester, he aimed to enjoy the outdoors even more than he had as a state employee. But as Jacobson, an advanced skier, whooshed down a slope at Sierra Ski Ranch, he lost control, hit a tree and broke his left elbow, shoulder blade and four ribs, which punctured a lung. Now incapacitated for at least two months, he has become an unhappy statistic-one of this year's roughly 100,000 injured...
Skimpy Second Aid. Many novices get hurt even before they hit the slopes. Though state safety codes have sharply reduced ski-lift mishaps, skiers manage to slip in icy parking lots, strain untrained muscles or fall off ski-lodge bar stools. One young woman recently hurt herself in the ski shop at Vail, Colo. Bending over to adjust the bindings on her rented skis, she ruptured her Achilles tendon and wound up in a cast for two months. Another girl suffered from annoying numbness in her legs whenever she skied. Dr. Arthur Ellison, a Williamstown, Mass., skier-orthopedist who runs...
...best insurance for skiing safety is sheer skill. For raw beginners, the accident rate is twelve injuries per thousand "skier-days." After a mere week of instruction, the rate drops to five injuries per thousand skier-days. Schussing at the highest speeds on the steepest trails, expert skiers (including women) have the fewest accidents-only three per thousand days. Hard-core skiers have an added incentive: the $300 or more they invest in equipment and lessons. When good skiers get hurt, they usually ask the examining doctor to please slit their expensive pants down the seam so they...