Word: slaloming
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...face of such awesome opposition, Gibson's strategy calls for all-out individual skiing, even at the expense of a high team score. He is asking members of his alpine squad to ski at top speed on both runs of the slalom and downhill, risking a fall in hopes of an exceptionally low time. He will also conserve the strength of his cross-country specialists by not entering them in the jump, possibly jeopardizing the team score in that event...
...alpine combined a score which is calculated on basis of both the slalom and downhill team performances, the Crimson finished fifth, in spite of a disappointing seventh in the downhill Friday...
Strong finishes in cross-country and slalom plus several costly mistakes by St. Lawrence compensated for weak Crimson performances in jumping and downhill. Co-Captain Kim Chaffee's 14th in the slalom on Saturday led the alpine squad to a fifth-place finish in that event. Chaffee's total time for the slalom runs would have been much better but for a fall in the first heat which cost him at least ten seconds. His second run was fourth best in the 46-man field...
With competition in slalom and jumping yet to be held, Dartmouth has built up a commanding lead over the nine other entries: Vermont, Middlebury, Harvard and Williams follow, in that order. The top five finishers will qualify for the National Collegiate Championships scheduled at Dartmouth two weeks hence...
Only a week after he had come out of nowhere to win a bronze medal in the special slalom at the Winter Olympics, the young Californian won the Kandahar special slalom, placed second in the giant slalom, easily beat France's Leo Lacroix for the combined title. Another U.S. winner: Oregon's lean Saubert, 21, who won the Kandahar women's slalom, beating France's Olympic Champion Marielle Goitschel...