Word: wengen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Werner was a failure, because he never won any. He broke a leg training for the 1960 Winter Olympics, and by the time this year's Games rolled around, he was 28 and past his peak. But over the years, he won the big races at Chamonix and Wengen and Courchevel, and when he did not win, Bud mostly crashed-because he was a one-man U.S. team trying to defeat the Austrians, French, Germans, Swiss and Italians, who always dominated the sport. Nobody ever skied faster than Werner. Some kept their feet...
Skiing had rarely seen anything like it: in three weeks Guy Périllat, 20, had won three international championships-at Switzerland's Wengen, Austria's Kitzbühel and France's Mégéve. Last week, as he returned from his triumphant tour to his native La Clusaz (pop. 1,200, including about 100 Périllats) in the French Alps, the whole town turned out to greet and acclaim the grinning, bull-necked man who is beyond dispute the king of the world's slopes...
...Fresh from winning the coveted Lauberhorn trophy at Wengen, Guy Perillat, 21, a trooper in the Alpine corps of the French army, rocketed down the mountainside at Kitzbuehel, Austria to win the Hahnenkamm, a second major prize in international skiing, with a victory in the downhill, second place in the slalom...