Word: skying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eskimo Pie. France's Périllat was all but born to his crown. His mother used to ski back and forth between La Clusaz and her family's Alpine farmhouse; his father ran a La Clusaz ski lift. At four, Guy got his first pair of skis for Christmas. Even before he could fasten them on by himself, he could use them well enough to tackle the steepest and most treacherous slopes. From the start, he aimed at becoming a champion. Recalls one townsman: "Guy seemed to realize even before he could reason that he would have...
...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...
...week Tokle once again tackled Bear Mountain, where he figures the maximum safe jump is 160 ft. Going all out against two crack Finnish entries, he soared an estimated 162 ft., then swerved sharply and tore a ligament in his right ankle. But even with the patriarch of U.S. ski jumping sidelined for a few weeks, the Tokles are still in the business. Arthur Jr., II, has been jumping since he flew 20 ft. at the age of two, is now competing in junior meets. Says Arthur Sr.: "All he needs is practice...
...Europe the most spectacular ski-jumping form now on view belongs to East Germany's handsome, boyish Helmut Recknagel, 23, a onetime machinist in a ball-bearing factory...
Getting ready at the top of a jump, Recknagel slides his plastic-coated skis back and forth to make sure they are not clogged, grasps the two supports at the opening of the starting pen and kicks against the back wall with his right ski. Then, tucked into a ball, he shoots down the slide and off into the freezing air, leaning forward over his skis until his nose seems about to touch their tip. With his arms thrust forward, he looks like a diver soaring endlessly through space. Back at the top of the jump, Recknagel's rivals...