Word: slaloming
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...Alpine events at Williams. Jay O'Rear finished sixth in the slalom after his first full week of practice since January 10. Captain Alan Watson fell on his second run but finished 20th, and Coburn was 22nd. "skiing cautiously" according to McCollom...
Things did not go so well in the giant slalom, as Greg Murdock in 18th place and O'Rear in 19th paced the Crimson. Watson stepped out of his binding on his first run and did not finish...
Robbie Ploiti of St. Lawrence repeated his performance at Dartmouth, winning both the slalom and giant slalom...
...much as three seconds-the equivalent of ten lengths in horse racing or 50 yds. in the mile run. In the first downhill race of the 14-week World Cup series, Henri Duvillard won by well over a second. At Berchtesgaden, Germany, Jean-Noel Augert swept the slalom by a margin of nearly 2½ sec. And in the giant slalom at Val-d'Isère France, Patrick Russel nipped Augert by six-tenths of a second while trouncing Italy's lone hope, Gustavo Thoeni, by more than two seconds...
Tomorrow's Champion. The French girls are even more impressive. In the giant slalom at Oberstaufen, Germany, for 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...