| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | 20 January 1986 Grenoble, France |
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) |
| Weight | 72 kg (159 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Country |  France |
| Sport | Cross-country skiing |
| Coached by | Christophe Deloche [1] |
Cyril Gaillard (born 20 January 1986 in Grenoble) is a French cross-country skier. He competed for France at the 2014 Winter Olympics. [1] [2]
The 1984 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XIV Olympic Winter Games and commonly known as Sarajevo '84, was a winter multi-sport event held between 8 and 19 February 1984 in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. It was the first Winter Olympic Games held in a Slavic language-speaking country, as well as the only Winter Olympics held in a communist country before the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China. It was the second consecutive Olympic Games held in a communist country, after the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. In today's standards, it would have been also the first and only Olympic Games to be held in a Muslim-majority country as Bosnia and Herzegovina didn't gain independence until 1992.
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Kent Callister is an Australian snowboarder. He has competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. His great-grandfather's second cousin, Cyril P. Callister, invented Vegemite.
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