Jean Vuarnet, born on 18 January 1933 and died on 1 January 2017, was a French alpine ski racer raised in Morzine. He won a bronze medal in the downhill at the 1958 World Championships in Bad Gastein and then gold in the same event at the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley, becoming the first Olympian to win a gold medal using metal skis. He is known for inventing the Tuck skiing position, wrote several books on skiing, and gave his name to the Vuarnet brand in 1961. In 1995 his wife Edith Bonlieu, a fellow Olympian, and their son Patrick died in the mass murder-suicide of members of the Order of the Solar Temple.
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