Jean-Claude Killy (born August 30, 1943) also known as Gilette is a former French alpine ski racer. Born in Saint-Cloud, Hauts-de-Seine, he dominated the sport in the late 1960s. He is a three Olympic champion, winning three mountain events at the 1968 Winter Olympics, becoming the most successful athlete there. He also won the first two World Cup titles, in 1967 and 1968.
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Killy was born in Saint-Cloud, a suburb of Paris, during the German occupation of World War II, but grew up in Val-d'IsÃÆ'¨re in the Alps, where her family moved in 1945 after the war. His father, Robert, was a former Spitfire pilot for Free France, and opened a ski shop in the village of Savoie, and then will operate the hotel. In 1950, her mother Madeline left the family for another man, leaving Robert to raise Jean-Claude, age 7, her sister (France), and their infant sister (Mic). Jean-Claude was sent to boarding school in ChambÃÆ'Â © ry, 80 miles (130 km km) down the valley, but he hated being closed in the classroom.
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Initial career
Killy turned her attention to skiing rather than to school. His father allowed him to quit at the age of 15, and he made the French national junior team a year later. As a young driver, Killy was quick, but usually did not finish his race, and the early 1960s did not work for him.
In December 1961, at the age of 18, Killy won his first international competition, a giant slalom. The event took place in his native village, Val-d'Isere. Killy has started 39, a position that should be very harmful.
The French coach picked Killy for a giant slalom at the 1962 World Championships in Chamonix, France, 50 miles (80 km) in the shadow of Mont Blanc. But Killy, unaware of her choice, is still trying to qualify for a downhill show in northeastern Italy in Cortina d'Ampezzo. Just three weeks before the world championships, he skied in his characteristic desperate style. Approximately two hundred meters (180 m) from the finish line, Killy crashed into the ice in compression and down, went straight up, then crossed the finish on just one ski - and the fastest time. Unfortunately, his other leg was broken, and he watched the 1962 World Championships on crutches.
Two years later, at the age of 20, Killy entered in all three male events at the 1964 Olympics, as his coach wanted to prepare him for 1968. Unfortunately, Killy was struck by the recurrence of amoebic dysentery and hepatitis, a disease he contracted in 1962 during mandatory summer the French army service in Algeria. His form was completely loose, and he fell several meters after starting down the hill, losing in slalom, and ending fifth in the giant slalom, where he became a heavy favorite. But a few weeks later, he dominated the giant slalom race in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, in Bavaria, counting for the prestigious Arlberg-Kandahar event, the oldest 'Classical' in sport. A year later, he also won in another major competition, slalom of the Hahnenkamm race at Kitzböhel which he achieved three times in a row until 1967.
Although the first half of the decade was a relative disappointment, Killy began greatly improving the result afterwards to become one of the best technical ski racers. In August 1966, the Frenchman, dubbed 'Toutoune' by some of his colleagues and friends, scored his first win in a descending race against the international field at the 1966 World Championships in Portillo, Chile, and also took gold in combined. Killy peaked when the first World Cup season was launched in January 1967, with the 1968 Winter Olympics in France just one more year.
Domination - 1967-68
World Cup Results
Standings
Season title
- 6 titles - (2nd overall, 1DH, 2GS, 1 SL)
Individual race
- 18 wins - (6 DH, 7 GS, 5 SL)
- 24 podium - (8 DH, 9 GS, 7 SL)
^ The results of the 1968 Winter Olympics (and the 1970 World Championships) were included in the World Cup.
Killy was the first World Cup champion in 1967, winning 12 of 17 races to easily win the overall title. He also won peak seasons in each of the three "Classic" alpine disciplines; he won all five races down and four of five giant slalom races.
The following year, Killy won the Triple Crown of Alpine Skiing by sweeping all three Olympic gold medals (downhill, giant slalom and slalom) in controversial circumstances at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France. By finishing first in all races, he also won the FIS world title in a joint event.
Omega's electrical time is accurate to one hundredth of a second. Killy relied on her upper body strength to hit the bar as it moved forward, giving herself little advantage. This spectacular start seems to have helped him beat his team-mate Guy Perillat, with just a few hundred on the Olympic declining track.
With Olympic events including (for the only time) on the World Cup podium, Killy easily defended her title in 1968 as overall champion, taking first place in the giant slalom and second in the autumn and slalom standings. He retired after the 1968 season, and moved to Geneva, Switzerland, in 1969.
World Championships results
1962: wounded
Olympic results
Post-Olympic career
In May 1968, Killy signed with the International Management Group, a sports management company headed by Mark McCormack. After racing at Dynamic VR17 and Rossignol skiing during his career section when he was dominant, Killy signed an agreement with Head Ski in the fall of 1968 to support the metal and fiberglass ski named for him, Killy 800. The head, which was acquired by AMF the following year, produces Killy's ski line for at least two years.
In television commercials, Killy promotes American Express cards. He also became a spokesperson for Schwinn bikes, United Airlines, and Chevrolet cars; the last, a role detailed by journalist Hunter S. Thompson in his 1970 article "The Temptations of Jean-Claude Killy" for Scanlan's Monthly .
Killy starred as a ski instructor in the 1972 crime movie Snow Work, released in the UK as The Ski Raiders and US TV as My Great Ski Caper. American children in the early 1970s knew Killy from a TV commercial where she introduced herself, her thick accent made her name a "Chocolate Kitty." Killy played alone in the 1983 Copper Mountain movie: A Club Med Experience, starring Jim Carrey and Alan Thicke, set in Copper Mountain, Colorado. Killy is also a star in the important TV movie Peggy Fleming in Sun Valley (1971), where she performed some incredible skiing tricks along with three-time Ice Skating World Champion Peggy Fleming.
Jean-Claude Killy also had a brief career as a racer between 1967 and 1970, participating in several car races including at Monza. Killy enters 1969 24 Hours Of Le Mans in partnership with Bob Wollek, another former ski racer. Killy and Wollek cars led the class just before retreating from the race in just four hours. In a team with fellow Frenchman Bernard Cahier, Killy is 7th overall in 1967 Targa-Florio on Porsche 911 S and first in the GT classification.
In November 1972, Killy came out of the ski race at the age of 29 years to compete on the pro circuit in the US for two seasons. After the excited challenges of two-time defending champion Spider Sabich, Killy won the 1973 season title, earning $ 28,625 in race wins and a $ 40,000 bonus for the championship. He missed the next season, won by Hugo Nindl, due to recurring stomachaches, then returned in the fall of 1974. The injury slowed him and he finished well out of the 1975 standings, won by Hank Kashiwa.
In addition to trying his skills as a car racer, Killy made two television series. One, Killy Style , is a thirteen-week series that features various ski resorts, and the other, The Killy Challenge, featuring her racing against celebrities, all of whom are handicapped. He is also sponsored by a champagne company, MoÃÆ'¼ & amp; Chandon, who paid him to be seen with a bottle of champagne on his desk wherever he went. In 1974, Killy, as part of the sponsorship deal, was paid to ski down the previously unkept east of Mt Ngauruhoe ("Doom" Jackson by Peter Jackson in New Zealand.) The average slope on the active volcano side is 35 degrees. Radar recorded its speed at more than 100 mph (160 km/h), and it took twice, because of the first spoiled cloud cover.
From 1977 to 1994, he was a member of the Executive board of the Alpine Ski Alpine Committee. Killy served as co-president of the 1992 Winter Olympics, held in Albertville, France, and as President of the Socià © à © tà © à © t Tour du France race between 1992 and 2001. From 1995 to 2014 he was a member of the International The Olympic Committee and chair the coordinating committee for Turin 2006 and Sochi 2014. He has been an Honorary Member ever since.
The ski areas of Val d'IsÃÆ'¨re and Tignes in the French Alps are named l'Espace Killy, in his honor.
Killy became the Supreme Officer of the LÃÆ' Â © gion d'honneur in 2000.
Intrawest credits Killy with a ski trail design, "Cupp Run," at their Snowshoe resort in West Virginia.
Personal life
From 1973 to 1987, he married French actress Danielle Gaubert, until her death from cancer. Together they have a daughter, Emilie; he also adopted his two sons from his first marriage to RhadamÃÆ' Â © s Trujillo, son of Rafael Trujillo, dictator who was murdered in the Dominican Republic. Gaubert and Trujillo divorced in 1968 and later that year he met Killy. He is known for making friends with Russian President Vladimir Putin [1]
References
External links
- Jean-Claude Killy in the International Ski Federation
- Ski-db.com - results - Jean-Claude Killy
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill. "Jean-Claude Killy". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com . Sport Reference LLC.
- BBC.net.uk - Killy's killer instinct
- Sports Illustrated - Killy: A Man and His Kingdom - February 12, 1990
- Sports Illustrated - Jean-Claude Killy's cover story - 1966-68 Cover
- (& amp; article) - November 18, 1968
- cover (& amp; articles) - March 27, 1967
- cover (& amp; articles) - February 21, 1966
- Jean-Claude Killy about IMDb
- Christian Science Monitor - Whatever Happened... Jean-Claude Killy? - November 4, 1999
- Jean-Claude Killy - Three Gold Medals - Junior Johnson, Slalom, Wins, Ski, Johnson, Downhill, and Time
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