Black notebook: Renée Féraud-Colliard went skiing in the stars

– Renée Féraud-Colliard went skiing among the stars

She was, in 1956 in Cortina d’Ampezzo, the first skier from Geneva to be Olympic champion at the Winter Olympics. At 89, she passed away peacefully.

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Renée Féraud-Colliard had told us this anecdote: “One day, a German-speaking Swiss came to me to tell me that she had seen a clairvoyant and that a blond girl was going to have an accident. I had to ski slower. I told him that in Geneva we were aware and that on the contrary, I had to put the gum.

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It was another era, when the skis were made of wood and the poles were “the trunks of small fir trees” which did not fold up. Renée Féraud-Colliard’s hands still had scars, 58 years later, when we met her at her home in Crans-Montana, just before the Sochi Olympics. In 2014, she was still the only Genevan to have won gold at the Winter Games. It was in Cortina d’Ampezzo, in 1956.