Eurosport - Emile Allais (AFP)
"Emile Allais has died overnight in his 101st year," the FFS said in a statement.
Allais, who fought World War Two on skis, won three world titles in downhill, slalom and combined in 1937 and another one in combined in 1938.
He also took a combined bronze medal at the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
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