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Serge Lang was married from 1944 to 1989 to German-born journalist
Anneliese Lang, who strongly supported him at the beginning of his career. Anneliese Lang was a film critic and met Lang at Basel during the War while reporting on "Le Bon Film" festival for a German newspaper. After returning to
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to enter a newly launched team competition. It was such an exciting event that Serge Lang was convinced afterwards it was time to greatly enlarge the horizon of alpine ski racing mostly limited to central Europe during the winter season. In
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In 1991 three generations of the family worked at the Tour de France, certainly a unique performance: both
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of Canada, and France's Jean-Claude Killy. The World Cup became an official event sanctioned by FIS next spring during its
Congress at Beirut, Lebanon. Marc Hodler became the first president of the World Cup Committee until 1973.
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The first (still unofficial) World Cup season began next winter with the men's competitions at
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world championships held in England in 1966, which were the first to be called World Cup.
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