{"id":2452346,"date":"2019-12-18T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=317825"},"modified":"2019-12-18T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T12:00:00","slug":"snowmass-history-the-killy-thing-1969","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/snowmass-history-the-killy-thing-1969\/","title":{"rendered":"Snowmass History: \u201cThe Killy Thing,\u201d 1969"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"690\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/12\/history-svs-121819-1024x690.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/12\/history-svs-121819-1024x690.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/12\/history-svs-121819-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/12\/history-svs-121819-768x517.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/12\/history-svs-121819-1536x1034.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/12\/history-svs-121819-2048x1379.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><figcaption><strong>One color slide of Jean-Claude Killy crossing the finish line during the Killy Challenge, a ski race on Aspen mountain in December, 1969.<\/strong><br \/><em>Lindner; Rick<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText DropCap\">\u201cKilly on TV,\u201d a headline in The Aspen Times read in 1969. \u201c\u2018The Killy Thing,\u2019 a 30-minute TV series on CBS, Sundays at 5 p.m. beginning Feb. 1, will feature Snowmass-at-Aspen on the first show,\u201d the related article stated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cThe program features 10 minutes of competitive races on parallel courses between Jean Claude and the winner of elimination races between four challengers. Parallel course racing was first tried for TV audiences last winter during the French-American Challenge Cup races in Aspen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The races were scheduled for early December with expectations that Stein Eriksen would be one of the challengers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/snowmass\/snowmass-history-the-killy-thing-1969\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One color slide of Jean-Claude Killy crossing the finish line during the Killy Challenge, a ski race on Aspen mountain in December, 1969.Lindner; Rick \u201cKilly on TV,\u201d a headline in The Aspen Times read in 1969. \u201c\u2018The Killy Thing,\u2019 a 30-minute TV series on CBS, Sundays at 5 p.m. beginning Feb. 1, will feature Snowmass-at-Aspen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2452346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-19 01:43:06","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2452346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2452346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2452346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2452346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}