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Olympic Games: the Olympic adventure told by Jean-Claude Killy, anecdotes and confidences

2022-02-04T12:31:19.059Z


BIG INTERVIEW – 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 not

"suffer from athazagoraphobia"

, he carefully cultivates discretion. To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Albertville Olympics, 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 which 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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Source: lefigaro

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