Biography
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American skier, Picabo Street, was born April 3, 1971, in Triumph, Idaho. She is now retired and lives in Park City, Utah.
She was raised on a small farm in Triumph, several miles southeast of Sun Valley, Idaho, where she learned to ski and race. She attended Rowland Hall-St. Mark's School in Salt Lake City and participated in its skiing academy, Rowmark. She first joined the United 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". Her main competitions were in the speed events of Downhill and Super G.
Picabo Street won the silver medal in the downhill at the 1994 Olympics. 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.
She became the first American ever to win a season title in a speed event by winning the 1995 World Cup in Downhill. She was the first American ever to win a season title in a speed event. In 1998, shortly after her Gold Medal win in the 1998 Winter Olympics, Picabo Street careened off course while racing in Switzerland, crashing and snapping her left femur, tearing the ligament in her right knee. She was in rehabilitation for two years following the accident.
She returned to skiing, and retired after the 2002 Winter Olympics, in Utah where she currently lives. She has achieved nine career victories. She has written an autobiography 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.
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