Word: slaloming
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...Rear, who missed all of last season with a back injury, established himself as the Crimson's top skier by finishing second in the Class A Giant Slalom in Sugarloaf, Maine earlier this month...
Steele, who began the season in Class B, moved up to Class A by finishing a strong third in the Pat Hardy Slalom at Waterville Valley. He was third again in the Giant Slalom at Sugarloaf and fourth in the slalom at Great George, N. J. over New Year...
...Dressed as a field surgeon in gown and rubber gloves, Sweden's future king made a sprint for the finish line and wound up on his back with two broken skis. Two days later the costumed "surgeon" needed the ministrations of a genuine medical man. After clipping a slalom gate, he wound up the season with a broken left...
...month looked more like the world ski-trade fair. With their equipment splashily plastered with brand names, contestants paraded before the TV cameras like walking commercials. For a $400-a-month payoff, one entrant sported the badge of a resort he has never even seen. After winning the special slalom, France's Jean-Noel Augert shouted "Vive Le Courbier!"-a hard-sell pitch for a ski resort in which, as he put it, "I am investing all my savings...
Billy Kidd, 26, the top U.S. skier, went everyone one better. After winning the gold medal for the best overall performance in the downhill, slalom and giant slalom, he announced that he was turning professional. A week later at Verbier, Switzerland, Kidd competed against 39 other pros in a series of races and schussed off with total winnings of $6,500 in what was billed as the first World Professional Skiing Championships. This week the touring pros moved into Vail, Colo., to race for $50,000 in prize money...