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Jean-Claude Killy Born: Aug. 30, 1943 2-time World Cup champion (1967-68); won 3 gold medals at 1968 Olympics in Grenoble; co-president of 1992 Winter Games in Albertville; president of coordination commission for 2006 Turin Games.won the first World Cup overall title in 1967 by recording the maximum possible points, and swept all three alpine races at the 1968 Olympic Winter Games-two feats never since repeated. Already the defending World Cup champion, French skiing legend Jean-Claude Killy was well on his way to his second straight Cup championship in 1968 when he took time out to make Olympic history.The brash, 24-year-old dazzled the world at the 1968 Winter Games in Grenoble, France, by winning gold medals in all three Alpine skiing events. He is only the second skier to ever accomplish that feat (Austria's Toni Sailer did it in 1956), and since then no skier has won more than two Alpine events at any one Olympic Games.The sweep did not come without controversy, however. In the slalom, Haakon Mjoen of Norway and Karl Schranz of Austria both posted better times than Killy but were disqualified for missing gates.And the performance came amidst the anti-commercialism storm brewed by International Olympic Committee presi