Regarding the previous post and photo, Ira Riklis comments: “The last pair is named for Jean Claude Killy, the French racer who at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble became only the second man ever (and still) to win all three men’s alpine events. There has since been added a fourth event, the Super Giant Slalom (or SuperG). However, no one since has won all three of the Slalom, Giant Slalom and Downhill.”
“He was my personal hero,” Rilkis continues. “In my desire to emulate him, I traded in my skis for a pair like those that Killy raced on, Dynamic VR17. Unfortunately, [...] I wasn’t competent to use a true racing ski at that time (I am, and do, now) and broke my leg within a week of trading up.”
Ira Riklis has supplied “a rather famous picture of Killy during the Slalom at Grenoble.” He says, “You can tell that he is on a pair of the VR17s by the distinctive angled, double black stripe on the “shovel” of the skis.”
Photo supplied by Ira Riklis
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