Jean-Claude Killy - King Of The Mountain Men

Celebrating the genius of the French skiing great.

Jan 31, 2022

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This piece originally ran in The New European.

Every Olympic Games has its poster boy or girl. In 2012, it was the British heptathlete Jessica Ennis. At the 2000 games in Sydney, it was aboriginal 400m star Kathy Freeman. And at the 1968 Winter Games in Grenoble, it was a charismatic French skier by the name of Jean-Claude Killy.

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