Word: slaloming
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...Chaffee grabbed 10th place in the cross-country and Steve Blodgett took the 15th spot in the slalom last week as they represented Harvard at the NCAA Skiing Championships at Crystal Mountain, Washington...
Chaffee's showing, hampered somewhat by equipment problems, was considered excellent in view of the stiff competition--the top finishers in most of the events were members of the U.S. Olympic team. Blodgett finished third in the slalom among the Eastern skiers, and took 23rd overall in the downhill...
Denver's Rick Chaffee won the slalom. He is Jon's cousin and brother of Kim Chaffee, captain of last year's Harvard Ski team. The downhill title went to Bill Marolt of Colorado...
...Austrians kept their skis in the snow. Heini Messner, an auto mechanic from Gries am Brenner, won the race - with three other Austrians and a Frenchman strung out behind. The star of the meet was France's Jean Claude Killy, 21, who showed why he is the best slalom skier in the world: cutting the gates so close that his sweater brushed the poles, Killy won both the special slalom and the giant slalom. The best the U.S. could do was third in the special, fourth in the giant. It was left to Jean Saubert to salvage a shred...
...wasn't supposed to work out that way. At the 1964 Winter Olympics, the U.S. scored a major breakthrough when Billy Kidd and Jimmy Heuga placed two-three in the special slalom and Jean Saubert won two medals by herself...