- Picabo Street
__NOTOC__Picabo Street (born
April 3 ,1971 , inTriumph, Idaho ) is an Americanskier , now retired and living inPark City, Utah .Early life and competition skiing
She was raised on a small
farm in Triumph, several miles southeast ofSun Valley, Idaho , where she learned to ski and race. She attendedRowland Hall-St. Mark's School inSalt Lake City and participated in its skiing academy, Rowmark. [http://rowmark.org/ski.program/recent.articles.php Recent Articles : Ski Program ... Rowmark Ski Academy, accessed March 16, 2007] She first joined theUnited States Ski Team in 1989, at the age of 17.Her given name was inspired by the nearby Idaho town of
Picabo, Idaho , (pronounced "Peekaboo"), which in turn takes its name from a Native American word meaning "shining waters". She primarily competed in the speed events ofDownhill and Super G.Fame
After her silver medal performance in the
downhill at the1994 Winter Olympics , a run was named after her at Sun Valley. On the Warm Springs side of Bald Mountain, the expert run formerly known as "Plaza" became "Picabo's Street." Street joinedChristin Cooper andGretchen Fraser as Sun Valley Olympic medalists. (Their named runs are on Seattle Ridge.) She appeared on the TV showNickelodeon GUTS in 1994.By winning the 1995 World Cup in
Downhill , she became the first American ever to win a season title in a speed event. In1998 , shortly after her Gold Medal win in the1998 Winter Olympics , Street careened off course while racing inSwitzerland , crashing and snapping her leftfemur , and tearing theligament in her right knee. She was inrehabilitation for two years following the accident.She returned to skiing, and retired after the
2002 Winter Olympics , inUtah where she currently lives [ [http://www.playingfieldpromotions.com/player.asp?id=98 Picabo Street Speaker Picabo Street Appearance, Agent ] ] , with nine career victories. She has written anautobiography entitled "Nothing to Hide" (ISBN 0-07-140693-X). In her autobiography, Street reveals the pressures placed on her by her sponsors to succeed and win, which she partly contributes to her devastating 1998 crash. She also talks of how she was able to transform from a rebellious tomboy into a world class athlete.Other
*Named her skis, mainly after people who are strong and mean a lot to her - among them, she has her Earnies (after
Dale Earnhardt ) and Arnolds (Arnold Schwarzenegger ) [ [http://www.usoc.org/26_13382.htm United States Olympic Committee - Street, Picabo ] ]
*Street was inducted into theNational Ski Hall of Fame in 2005.
*She has appeared on "Celebrity Paranormal Project ".
*In the late 1990s, after her success at the1998 Winter Olympics , Street became a spokesperson forMountain Dew , being featured on the product's packaging and ads.World Cup victories
Overall results
Individual victories
References
External links
* Results
* [http://www.ski-db.com/db/profiles/wstrpi.asp Ski-db.com] Results
* [http://www.snopes.com/humor/jokes/picabo.asp Picabo I.C.U.]
* [http://ebooks.ebookmall.com/ebook/129625-ebook.htm Ebook, "Nothing to Hide"]
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