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...main ideas for his team: exercise and the egg. Until then, the prevailing form featured a skis-together, head-up posture. Bonnet reasoned that I'oeuf, a little used, head-down, feet-apart crouch, would give less aerodynamic drag and a lower center of gravity, thus making a skier faster and less likely to fall. The trouble was that it required fantastic strength to hold the egg for any length of time. Le coach, therefore, put les skiers through an exhaustive and exhausting daily ritual of deep knee bends with 60-lb. sacks of sand on their shoulders, forced...
...biathlon is a twelve-and-a-half-mile ski race in which the competitors carry rifles and must stop four times to shoot at 10-inch targets 150 meters away. A skier is penalized two minutes for each time he misses one of the twenty targets...
...skier Steve Blodgett screamed down the mountain to take first place in the slalom and fourth in the downhill at the Dartmouth Winter Carnival in Hanover this weekend...
...combined results for the slalom and down hill put Steve Blodgett a half second behind Middlebury's B. McCollom and ahead of Williams skier Dave Rikert. Peter Gagarin finished 13 in the combined results, and Willy Draper, a sophomer placed...
William Draper, a Harvard B. skier, was fourth in the slalom and 11th in the giant slalom...