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Picabo Street (; born April 3, 1971) is an American former World Cup Alpine skiing and Olympic gold medalist. She won the Super-G at the 1998 Winter Olympics and the downhill at the 1996 World Championships, along with three other Olympic and World Championship medals. Street also won World Cup downhill season titles in 1995 and 1996, the first American woman to do so, along with nine World Cup downhill race wins. Street was inducted into the National Ski Hall of Fame in 2004.
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.http://www.rowlandhall.org/schoollife/rowmark/college_placement/index.php Recent Articles : Ski Program – Rowmark Ski Academy, accessed February 21, 2010
By winning the 1995 downhill title, she became the first American to win a World Cup season title in a speed event. She repeated as downhill champion the following season, adding the title of world champion with her gold medal at the 1996 World Championships in Sierra Nevada, Spain.
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.
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 Santa Cruz, CA. She spoke with the senior manufacturing engineer, a long-time skier himself, about the progression of equipment, signing a prototype helmet for him as she left."The Santa Cruz Sentinel", August 6, 1998. She also appeared on Celebrity Paranormal Project.
She wrote an autobiography in 2001 titled Picabo: Nothing to Hide (). In it, Street revealed the pressure placed on her by her sponsors to succeed and win, which she maintains contributed to her devastating 1998 crash. She also described how she was able to transform from a rebellious tomboy into a world-class athlete.
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.
She appeared in two skits on Sesame Street with the character Elmo and Telly Monster. In one, Telly was looking for a place called Peekaboo Street and met the real Picabo Street; in the other, Elmo insisted on introducing Picabo because he thought she was a world champion peekaboo player. Her name also appeared in the song "One Big Mob" by the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Street was the runner up (with a time of 5:37) in the NBC celebrity reality competition series Stars Earn Stripes.
On ESPN's College Game Day in Boise on September 25, 2010, Street stated that she was pregnant and expecting her third boy.
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). United States Olympic Committee – Street, Picabo
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. - "Picabo ICU" joke Car Talk listed her in their list of fake staff credits for the show as the Director of Intensive Care Unit commenting that it therefore was referred to as the "Picabo ICU". - "Staff Credits"
Commercial endeavors
Street appeared on the TV shows Nickelodeon GUTS in 1994, and Pyramid (2002). She performed well on the show American Gladiators, where Street used her strength to defeat the gladiator character "Ice" in a couple of events.
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. On August 3, 2009, Street gave birth to her second son.
World Cup results
Season titles
Downhill Downhill
Season standings
— 16 — 5 — — no World Cup starts 28 — —
Race podiums
2nd 1st 3rd 2nd 2nd 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 3rd 1st 2nd 2nd 1st 2nd
World Championship results
2 — injured, did not compete 27
Olympic results
10 — —
External links
Categories: Olympic Gold Medalists For The United States In Alpine Skiing, Olympic Silver Medalists For The United States In Alpine Skiing, American Female Alpine Skiers, Alpine Skiers At The 1994 Winter Olympics, Alpine Skiers At The 1998 Winter Olympics, Alpine Skiers At The 2002 Winter Olympics, People From Blaine County, Idaho, 1971 Births, Living People, Participants In American Reality Television Series, Fis Alpine Ski World Cup Champions, Medalists At The 1998 Winter Olympics, Medalists At The 1994 Winter Olympics, Sportspeople From Idaho, 21st-century American Sportswomen, 20th-century American Sportswomen
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