Interesting Information

Interesting Information

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VANCOUVER Feb 11 Listed here are some interesting information ahead of the Alpine skiing events, which get underway with the boys's downhill in Whistler on Saturday on the Vancouver Winter Olympics.
Henri Oreiller won the first Olympic downhill event at St Moritz, Switzerland in 1948. A member of the French underground in World Struggle Two, the cocky skier had a popularity for careering around courses like an acrobat.
His quick-paced personality saw him flip to race automobile driving and he was killed at the wheel of his Ferrari in 1962, aged 36.
Before his profitable skiing career within the late sixties, Jean-Claude Killy spent a rebellious childhood being chased by an area priest, in full robes and on skis, for missing bible examine class.
Later at a ski-jump competition in Wengen, Switzerland Killy triggered a stir when he dropped his pants after takeoff and finished the soar in long johns. He went on to turn out to be a triple Olympic champion at the 1968 Winter Games in Grenoble, France.
Tommy Moe of the United States was banned from local competitions at thirteen and put on probation by the U.S. ski group at 16, each times for smoking marijuana.
Following a gruelling spell on his father's building website, Moe lastly started concentrating on his ski training and went on to win downhill gold at the 1994 Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway.
Aged 31, Jean-Luc Cretier was collaborating in his fourth Olympics at the 1998 Nagano Video games, having by no means completed above fourth place and had not gained a World Cup race in 11 years.
On his downhill run, he wisely approached the harmful gate seven with warning earlier than finishing the course. Those following him didn't. and after 14 skiers crashed at the identical gate, Cretier was readily available to take Olympic gold.
After being caught trying to steal a car on the age of 17, American skier Invoice Johnson was sentenced to a spell in a ski academy quite than a prison thanks to his excellent reputation in the sport.
Johnson by no means stole once more and went on to win Olympic gold within the men's downhill on the 1984 Sarajevo Winter Games, turning into the primary U.S. male to win the occasion at the Olympics.
Englishman Arnold Lunn was the man mainly chargeable for obtaining Olympic recognition for Alpine snowboarding in 1936. He additionally invented the fashionable slalom in 1922. Alpine skiing turned an Olympic occasion in 1948 at the Video games in St Moritz, Switzerland. (Writing by Neil Maidment; enhancing by Frank Pingue; To query or touch upon this story emailsportsfeedback@)
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