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Émile Allais turned 100
On February 25th 2012 Émile Allais turned 100 years. Born in Megève, he was a dominant racer in the late 1930s and is considered the first great French alpine skier.
Allais won the bronze medal in the combined (downhill and slalom), the only alpine medal event at the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. The year before, he had won the silver medal in the downhill and combined at the 1935 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships.
In 1937 he became a triple world champion at Chamonix, France, winning all three events (downhill, slalom, and combined). The following year at Engelberg, Switzerland, he won the combined, and took silver in the downhill and slalom. Émile Allais is regarded as one of the great skiing pioneers, having founded the École Française de Ski, which taught innovative French methods in skiing, as the creator of cutting edge skis whilst also advising and developing ski resorts.