MAJOR MAINTENANCE – The unforgettable triple gold medalist of the Grenoble Olympics in 1968 was, thirty years ago, the co-president of the Albertville Olympics. Confident for the French team in Beijing, he shares his Olympic adventure, that of a lifetime.
Sport and its actors (former and current) hold no secrets for Jean-Claude Killy. He always likes to dissect the technique of champions, looking for the detail that digs the difference, sculpts the performance. If he does “does not suffer from athazagoraphobia”, he carefully cultivates discretion. To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Albertville Olympic Games, Jean-Claude Killy took pleasure in leafing through the souvenir album of“a human adventure”. For an hour and a half, names and anecdotes danced. The co-president of the Albertville Olympic Games, with Michel Barnier, had regained its rightful place at the heart of these warm, ambitious Games (“Albertville, the Games of a valley which only wanted to open up to the world”), creative, colorful that marked those who, from near or far, approached it: “The state of mind lasted a very, very long time in Savoie…” From Grenoble 1968 to Albertville, from Beijing to Paris 2024, Jean-Claude Killy shared the Olympic universe. Gold and behind the scenes: “I was the translation of this…
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