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Picabo Street (
Early life
Street was born at home in Triumph, Idaho; her parents are Dee (a music teacher) and Roland "Stubby" Street (a stonemason). Her brother Roland, Jr. is one year older. Her parents decided to let Picabo choose her own name when she was old enough, so for the first two years of her life she was called "baby girl" or "little girl". At age three she was required to have a name in order to get a passport. She was named after the nearby village of Picabo.[2] She was raised on a small farm in Triumph, several miles southeast of Sun Valley, where she learned to ski and race.
She attended Rowland Hall-St. Mark's School in Salt Lake City, Utah, and participated in its Rowmark Ski Academy for one year before returning to Sun Valley to race for the Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation. Before joining the academy, she was a member of the local Hailey Ski Team.[3]
Skiing career
Street joined the
1994–1996
After her silver medal performance in the downhill at the 1994 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 joined Christin Cooper and Gretchen Fraser as Sun Valley Olympic medalists (their named runs are on Seattle Ridge).
By winning the
1997–2002
While training in Colorado in early December 1996, Street suffered an ACL injury to her left knee and missed the remainder of the 1997 season.[5] A month after her gold medal win in the super G at the 1998 Winter Olympics, she careened off course at the final downhill of the 1998 season at Crans-Montana, Switzerland. Street crashed, snapping her left femur and tearing the ACL in her right knee.[6][7] She was in rehabilitation for two years following the accident.
Street returned to ski racing in late 2000, and retired from international competition after the 2002 Winter Olympics in Utah, where she finished sixteenth in the downhill.[2]
Commercial endeavors
Street appeared on the TV shows
In the late 1990s, after her success at the 1998 Winter Olympics, Street became a spokeswoman for a variety of products, including the soft drink Mountain Dew and ChapStick-brand lip balm.
In 1998 she signed with Giro Sport Design which was then developing its first winter sports helmet. In August she toured the company's headquarters/manufacturing facility, then located in
She wrote an
A feature film based on Street's life story was in development as of late 2009, written by Eric Preston with director Charles Winkler slated to direct, and produced by Jeff Luini and Richard Weiner. Filming was slated begin in 2010 in Argentina.[9]
She appeared in two skits on
Street was the runner up (with a time of 5:37) in the NBC celebrity reality competition series Stars Earn Stripes.[10]
Personal life
Street is retired and splits her time between homes in Alabama and Winter Park, Colorado. She has a son born in August 2004, with her former partner N. J. Pawley. On October 25, 2008, she married businessman John Reeser atop Prospect Mountain, near Hanceville, Alabama.[11] On August 3, 2009, Street gave birth to her second son.
On
Street named her skis for people who were strong and meaningful to her. Among them are her "Earnies" (after Dale Earnhardt) and her "Arnolds" (after Arnold Schwarzenegger).[12]
In the early 2000s, an internet joke spread which claimed Street made a "substantial donation" to her hometown hospital, which named a wing after her, the "Picabo ICU" (as in "Peekaboo! I see you!"). Another version claimed she became an ICU nurse and would answer the phone by saying, "Picabo, ICU!" A less common variant claimed a fan feared Street would be injured and appear in a headline reading, "Picabo? ICU." All three variants of the joke were debunked by Snopes.[13]
World Cup results
Season titles
Season | Discipline |
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1995 |
Downhill |
1996 |
Downhill |
Season standings
Season | Age | Overall | Slalom | Giant Slalom |
Super G | Downhill | Combined |
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1993 |
21 | 39 | 56 | — | 39 | 18 | — |
1994 |
22 | 36 | — | — | 42 | 8 | 16 |
1995 |
23 | 5 | — | — | 8 | 1 | — |
1996 |
24 | 6 | — | 49 | 14 | 1 | 5 |
1997 |
25 | 71 | — | — | — | 25 | — |
1998 |
26 | 46 | — | — | 24 | 17 | — |
1999 |
27 | no World Cup starts | |||||
2000 |
28 | ||||||
2001 |
29 | 68 | — | — | — | 26 | — |
2002 |
30 | 52 | — | — | — | 17 | — |
Race podiums
Season | Date | Location | Discipline | Place |
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1993 |
March 13, 1993 | Kvitfjell, Norway | Downhill |
2nd |
1995 |
December 9, 1994 | Lake Louise , Canada |
Downhill | 1st |
December 11, 1994 | Super G |
3rd | ||
January 14, 1995 | Garmisch, Germany | Super G | 2nd | |
January 20, 1995 | Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy | Downhill | 2nd | |
January 21, 1995 | Downhill | 1st | ||
February 17, 1995 | Åre , Sweden |
Downhill | 1st | |
March 4, 1995 | Saalbach, Austria | Downhill | 1st | |
March 11, 1995 | Lenzerheide, Switzerland | Downhill | 1st | |
March 15, 1995 | Bormio, Italy | Downhill | 1st | |
1996 |
December 1, 1995 | Lake Louise, Canada | Downhill | 1st |
December 16, 1995 | St. Anton , Austria |
Downhill | 3rd | |
January 19, 1996 | Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy | Downhill | 1st | |
January 20, 1996 | Downhill | 2nd | ||
February 3, 1996 | Val-d'Isère, France | Downhill | 2nd | |
February 29, 1996 | Narvik, Norway | Downhill | 1st | |
March 1, 1996 | Downhill | 2nd |
World Championship results
Year | Age | Slalom | Giant Slalom |
Super G | Downhill | Combined | |
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1993 | 21 | — | — | — | 10 | 2 | |
1996 | 24 | — | — | 3 | 1 | — | |
1997 | 25 | injured, did not compete | |||||
1999 | 27 |
Olympic results
Year | Age | Slalom | Giant Slalom |
Super G | Downhill | Combined |
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1994 | 22 | — | — | — | 2 | 10 |
1998 | 26 | — | — | 1 | 6 | — |
2002 | 30 | — | — | — | 16 | — |
References
- ^ ALPINE SKIING: Picabo Street
- ^ a b Phillips, Bob (2002). "Injuries haven't stopped greatest U.S. skier". ESPN. Retrieved March 15, 2014.
- ^ http://www.rowlandhall.org/schoollife/rowmark/college_placement/index.php Archived January 31, 2010, at the Wayback Machine Recent Articles : Ski Program – Rowmark Ski Academy, accessed February 21, 2010
- ^ "Vogt wins women's combined". Lodi News Sentinel. wire services. February 6, 1993. p. 15.
- ^ Baum, Bob (July 8, 1997). "Street's back on skis with sights set on Nagano". Moscow-Pullman Daily News. (Idaho-Washington). Associated Press. p. 3B.
- ^ The Augusta Chronicle – March 14, 1998 – accessed April 3, 2011
- ^ "Street breaks leg in crash". Lodi News Sentinel. Associated Press. March 14, 1998. p. 12.
- ^ "The Santa Cruz Sentinel", August 6, 1998.
- ^ "SportsBusiness Daily: Names in the News". September 2, 2009. Retrieved February 13, 2010.
Producers Richard Weiner and Jeff Luini will make a new movie based on the life of U.S. skier Picabo Street. Directed by Charles Winkler and written by Eric Preston, Picabo will start filming sometime in '10 in Argentina.
- ^ "Stars Earn Stripes, Episode 105 (Harbor Demolition) Results". Retrieved September 8, 2012.
- ^ Sheff-Cahan, Vicki (November 3, 2008). "Olympic skier Picabo Street weds". People. Retrieved March 15, 2014.
- ^ United States Olympic Committee – Street, Picabo
- ^ [https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/picabo-icu/ - "Picabo ICU" joke
External links
- Picabo Street at the International Ski and Snowboard Federation
- Picabo Street at Ski-DB Alpine Ski Database
- Picabo Street at the U.S. Ski & Snowboard Hall of Fame– inducted 2004
- Picabo Street at the Team USA Hall of Fame
- Picabo Street at Olympedia
- Picabo Street at Olympics.com