When Austrian Anton "Toni"
Sailer won all three Alpine events
in 1956, no one thought that feat
would ever be duplicated.  But in
1968, Frenchman Jean-Claude
Killy, dubbed "Le Superman" won
triple Gold in front of his countrymen at Grenoble. 

 In his first event, the downhill, 
Killy just beat out his countryman 
Guy Perillat; France won Gold and 
Silver.  He won his second event, 
the giant slalom, by more than two 
seconds.  The final Alpine event, 
the slalom, was skied in a thick fog. Austrian Karl Schranz
appeared to be winning the race
with a faster time than Killy when he suddenly stopped in midcourse
-- he claimed he was interfered with by an official who had strayed
onto the course in the fog.  He was
given a second run and finished
with a better time than Killy, but
Killy was awarded the medal when
it was determined that Schranz had
missed the gate before seeing the
official in the first race and was
disqualified.  

No one since has duplicated Killy's 
feat of triple Gold in Alpine skiing.