Émile Allais, French skier (born 1912)

Émile Allais

French alpine skier (1912–2012)

Émile Allais was a champion alpine ski racer from France; he won all three events at the 1937 world championships in Chamonix and the gold in the combined in 1938. Born in Megève, he was a dominant racer in the late 1930s and is considered to have been the first great French…