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{{short description|American alpine skier}}
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{{Infobox alpine ski racer
|name            = Picabo Street
|image           = Picabo Street.jpg
|caption         = Picabo Street in October 1999
|disciplines     = [[Downhill (ski competition)|Downhill]], [[Super-G]], [[Alpine skiing combined|Combined]]
|club            =
|birth_date      = {{birth date and age|1971|4|3}}
|birth_place     = [[Triumph, Idaho|Triumph]], [[Idaho]], U.S.
|height          = {{height|ft=5|in=7}}<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/sports/longterm/olympics1998/sport/profiles/street.htm ALPINE SKIING: Picabo Street ]</ref>
|wcdebut         = December 6 [[1993 Alpine Skiing World Cup|1992]]<br>(age 21)
|retired         = February [[2002 Alpine Skiing World Cup|2002]] (age 30)
|olympicteams    = 3 – ([[Alpine skiing at the 1994 Winter Olympics|1994]], [[Alpine skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics|1998]], [[Alpine skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics|2002]])
|olympicmedals   = 2 
|olympicgolds    = 1
|worldsteams     = 2 – ([[FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1993|1993]], [[FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1996|1996]])
|worldsmedals    = 3
|worldsgolds     = 1
|wcseasons       = 8 – ([[1993 Alpine Skiing World Cup|1993]] [[2002 Alpine Skiing World Cup|-2002]])<br>''(injured [[1999 Alpine Skiing World Cup|1999]], [[2000 Alpine Skiing World Cup|2000]])''
|wcwins          = 9 – (9 [[Downhill (ski competition)|DH]])
|wcpodiums       = 17 – (15 [[Downhill (ski competition)|DH]], 2 [[Super-G|SG]])
|wcoveralls      = 0 – ''(5th, [[1995 Alpine Skiing World Cup|1995]])''
|wctitles        = 2 – ([[Downhill (ski competition)|DH]]: [[1995 Alpine Skiing World Cup|1995]], [[1996 Alpine Skiing World Cup|1996]])
|show-medals    = yes
|medals         = 
{{MedalSport | Women's [[alpine skiing]]}}
{{MedalCountry | the {{USA}} }}
{{MedalCompetition|[[Alpine skiing at the Winter Olympics|Olympic Games]]}}
{{MedalGold | [[1998 Winter Olympics|1998 Nagano]] |[[Alpine skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics – Women's super-G|Super-G]]}}
{{MedalSilver| [[1994 Winter Olympics|1994 Lillehammer]] |[[Alpine skiing at the 1994 Winter Olympics – Women's downhill|Downhill]]}}
{{MedalCompetition | [[FIS Alpine World Ski Championships|World Championships]]}}
{{MedalGold| [[FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1996|1996 Sierra Nevada]] |Downhill}}
{{MedalSilver| [[FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1993|1993 Morioka]] |Combined}}
{{MedalBronze| [[FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1996|1996 Sierra Nevada]] |Super-G}}
}}

'''Picabo Street''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|p|iː|k|ə|b|uː}}; born April 3, 1971) is an American former [[FIS Alpine Ski World Cup|World Cup]] [[Alpine skiing|alpine ski racer]] and Olympic gold medalist. She won the [[Super-G|super G]] at the [[Alpine skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics|1998 Winter Olympics]] and the [[Downhill (ski competition)|downhill]] at the [[FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1996|1996 World Championships]], along with three other Olympic and World Championship medals. Street also won [[FIS Alpine Ski World Cup|World Cup]] downhill season titles in [[1995 Alpine Skiing World Cup|1995]] and [[1996 Alpine Skiing World Cup|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.

==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 their daughter 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, Idaho|Picabo]].<ref name=espnsc>{{cite web|url=https://www.espn.com/classic/biography/s/Street_Picabo.html |title=Injuries haven't stopped greatest U.S. skier |publisher=ESPN |last=Phillips |first=Bob |date=2002 |access-date=March 15, 2014}}</ref> She was raised on a small farm in Triumph, several miles southeast of [[Sun Valley, Idaho|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, Idaho|Hailey]] Ski Team.<ref>http://www.rowlandhall.org/schoollife/rowmark/college_placement/index.php {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100131015109/http://www.rowlandhall.org/schoollife/rowmark/college_placement/index.php |date=January 31, 2010 }} Recent Articles : Ski Program – Rowmark Ski Academy, accessed February 21, 2010</ref>

==Skiing career==
Street joined the [[United States Ski Team|U.S. Ski Team]] in [[1989 Alpine Skiing World Cup|1989]] at the age of 17.  She primarily competed in the speed events of [[Downhill (ski competition)|downhill]] and [[Super-G|super G]], with her World Cup debut at age 21 in a [[Slalom skiing|slalom]] on December 6 [[1993 Alpine Skiing World Cup|1992]]. Two months later at the [[FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1993|1993 World Championships]] in [[Japan]] she won the silver medal in the combined event.<ref name=vwwcmb >{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ZothAAAAIBAJ&sjid=4TIHAAAAIBAJ&pg=3852%2C4681280 |newspaper=Lodi News Sentinel |agency=wire services |title=Vogt wins women's combined |date=February 6, 1993 |page=15 }}</ref>

===1994–1996===
After her silver medal performance in the [[Alpine skiing at the 1994 Winter Olympics – Women's downhill|downhill]] at the [[Alpine skiing at the 1994 Winter Olympics|1994 Winter Olympics]], a run was named after her at [[Sun Valley, Idaho|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 [[1995 Alpine Skiing World Cup|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 [[FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1996|1996 World Championships]] in [[Sierra Nevada Ski Station|Sierra Nevada]], [[Spain]].

===1997–2002===
While training in Colorado in early December 1996, Street suffered an [[Anterior cruciate ligament injury|ACL injury]] to her left knee and missed the remainder of the [[1996–97 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup|1997 season]].<ref name=sbasson>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Rb4jAAAAIBAJ&sjid=xdAFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6463%2C512086 |work=Moscow-Pullman Daily News |location=Idaho-Washington |agency=Associated Press |last=Baum |first=Bob |title=Street's back on skis with sights set on Nagano |date=July 8, 1997 |page=3B}}</ref> A&nbsp;month after her gold medal win in the [[Alpine skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics – Women's super-G|super G]] at the [[Alpine skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics|1998 Winter Olympics]], she careened off course<!-- while racing--> at the final downhill of the [[1997–98 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup|1998 season]] at [[Crans-Montana]], [[Switzerland]].  Street crashed, snapping her left femur and tearing the ACL in her right knee.<ref>[http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/1998/03/14/oth_224121.shtml ''The Augusta Chronicle''] – March 14, 1998 – accessed April 3, 2011</ref><ref name=lnssbl>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=sc40AAAAIBAJ&sjid=ICEGAAAAIBAJ&pg=7102%2C1499541 |newspaper=Lodi News Sentinel |agency=Associated Press |title=Street breaks leg in crash |date=March 14, 1998 |page=12 }}</ref> She was in [[Physical therapy|rehabilitation]] for two years following the accident.

Street returned to ski racing in late [[2000–01 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup|2000]], and retired from international competition after the [[Alpine skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics|2002 Winter Olympics]] in [[Utah]], where she finished sixteenth in the [[Alpine skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics – Women's downhill|downhill]].<ref name=espnsc/>

==Commercial endeavors==
Street appeared on the TV shows ''[[Nickelodeon GUTS]]'' in 1994, and ''[[Pyramid (game show)|Pyramid]]'' (2002).  She performed well on the show ''[[American Gladiators (1989 TV series)|American Gladiators]]'', where Street used her strength to defeat the gladiator character "Ice" in a couple of events.

In the late 1990s, after her success at the [[Alpine skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics|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.<ref>"The Santa Cruz Sentinel", August 6, 1998.</ref> She also appeared on ''[[Celebrity Paranormal Project]]''.

She wrote an [[autobiography]] in 2001 titled ''Picabo: Nothing to Hide'' ({{ISBN|0-07-140693-X}}). 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]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/article/133048|title=SportsBusiness Daily: Names in the News|date=September 2, 2009|access-date=February 13, 2010|quote=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.}}</ref>

She appeared in two skits on ''[[Sesame Street]]'' with the character [[Elmo]] and [[Telly Monster|Telly]]. 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|peek-a-boo]] 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]]''.<ref name="SES Runer Up">{{cite web |url=http://www.nbc.com/stars-earn-stripes/about/bios/picabo-street/ |title=Stars Earn Stripes, Episode 105 (Harbor Demolition) Results |access-date=September 8, 2012}}</ref>

==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]].<ref name=olskpsw>{{cite news|url=https://people.com/celebrity/olympic-skier-picabo-street-weds/ |magazine=People |title=Olympic skier Picabo Street weds |last=Sheff-Cahan |first=Vicki |date=November 3, 2008 |access-date=March 15, 2014}}</ref> On August 3, 2009, Street gave birth to her second son.

On [[ESPN]]'s ''[[College GameDay (football)|College Game Day]]'' in [[Boise, Idaho|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]]).<ref>[http://www.usoc.org/26_13382.htm United States Olympic Committee – Street, Picabo<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>

In the early 2000s, an [[Humor on the internet|internet joke]] spread which claimed Street made a "substantial donation" to her hometown hospital, which named a wing after her, the "Picabo [[Intensive care unit|ICU]]" (as in "[[Peekaboo|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]].<ref>[https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/picabo-icu/ - "Picabo ICU" joke]</ref>

==World Cup results==

===Season titles===
{|class="wikitable"
!Season
!Discipline
|-
|align=center|[[1995 Alpine Skiing World Cup|1995]]||align=center|[[Downhill (ski competition)|Downhill]]
|-
|align=center|[[1996 Alpine Skiing World Cup|1996]]||align=center|Downhill
|}

===Season standings===
{| class=wikitable style="text-align:center"
!Season !! Age !! Overall !! Slalom !! Giant<br>Slalom !! Super G !! Downhill !!Combined
|-
| [[1993 Alpine Skiing World Cup|1993]] || ''21'' || 39 || 56 || — || 39 || 18 || —
|-
| [[1994 Alpine Skiing World Cup|1994]] || ''22'' || 36 || — || — || 42 || 8 ||16 
|-
| [[1995 Alpine Skiing World Cup|1995]] || ''23'' || 5 || — || — || 8 || bgcolor="gold"|1 || — 
|-
| [[1996 Alpine Skiing World Cup|1996]] || ''24'' || 6 || — || 49 || 14 || bgcolor="gold"|1 || 5
|-
| [[1997 Alpine Skiing World Cup|1997]] || ''25'' || 71 || — || — || — || 25 || — 
|-
| [[1998 Alpine Skiing World Cup|1998]] || ''26'' || 46 || — || — || 24 || 17 || — 
|-
| [[1999 Alpine Skiing World Cup|1999]] || ''27'' ||rowspan=2 colspan=6| ''no World Cup starts''
|-
| [[2000 Alpine Skiing World Cup|2000]] || ''28'' 
|-
| [[2001 Alpine Skiing World Cup|2001]] || ''29'' ||  68 || — || — || — || 26 || — 
|-
| [[2002 Alpine Skiing World Cup|2002]] || ''30'' || 52 || — || — || — || 17 || —
|}

===Race podiums===
* 9 wins – (9 [[Downhill (ski competition)|DH]])
* 17 podiums – (15 [[Downhill (ski competition)|DH]], 2 [[Super-G|SG]])
{|class="wikitable"
!Season
!Date
!Location
!Discipline
!Place
|-
|rowspan=1 align=center| '''[[1993 Alpine Skiing World Cup|1993]]''' || March 13, 1993 ||[[Kvitfjell]], Norway || align=center|[[Downhill skiing|Downhill]] || align=center|2nd
|-
|rowspan=9 align=center| '''[[1995 Alpine Skiing World Cup|1995]]''' || bgcolor="#BOEOE6"| December 9, 1994 ||rowspan=2|[[Lake Louise Ski Area|Lake Louise]], Canada || bgcolor="#BOEOE6" align=center|Downhill || bgcolor="#BOEOE6" align=center|'''1st'''
|-
| December 11, 1994 || align=center| [[Super Giant Slalom skiing|Super G]] || align=center|3rd
|-
| January 14, 1995 ||[[Garmisch Classic|Garmisch]], Germany || align=center| Super G || align=center|2nd
|-
| January 20, 1995 ||rowspan=2|[[Cortina d'Ampezzo]], Italy || align=center|Downhill || align=center|2nd
|-
|bgcolor="#BOEOE6"| January 21, 1995 || bgcolor="#BOEOE6" align=center|Downhill || bgcolor="#BOEOE6" align=center|'''1st'''
|-
| bgcolor="#BOEOE6"|February 17, 1995 ||[[Åre Ski Area|Åre]], Sweden || bgcolor="#BOEOE6" align=center|Downhill || bgcolor="#BOEOE6" align=center|'''1st'''
|-
| bgcolor="#BOEOE6"| March 4, 1995 ||[[Saalbach-Hinterglemm|Saalbach]], Austria || bgcolor="#BOEOE6" align=center|Downhill ||bgcolor="#BOEOE6" align=center|'''1st'''
|-
| bgcolor="#BOEOE6"| March 11, 1995 ||[[Lenzerheide]], Switzerland &nbsp;|| bgcolor="#BOEOE6" align=center|Downhill || bgcolor="#BOEOE6" align=center|'''1st'''
|-
| bgcolor="#BOEOE6"| March 15, 1995 ||[[Bormio]], Italy || bgcolor="#BOEOE6" align=center|Downhill || bgcolor="#BOEOE6" align=center|'''1st'''
|-
|rowspan=7 align=center| '''[[1996 Alpine Skiing World Cup|1996]]''' || bgcolor="#BOEOE6" |December 1, 1995 ||Lake Louise, Canada|| bgcolor="#BOEOE6" align=center|Downhill || bgcolor="#BOEOE6" align=center|'''1st'''
|-
| December 16, 1995 ||[[Sankt Anton am Arlberg|St. Anton]], Austria || align=center|Downhill || align=center|3rd
|-
| bgcolor="#BOEOE6"| January 19, 1996 ||rowspan=2|Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy|| bgcolor="#BOEOE6" align=center|Downhill || bgcolor="#BOEOE6" align=center|'''1st'''
|-
| January 20, 1996 || align=center|Downhill || align=center|2nd
|-
| February 3, 1996 ||[[Val-d'Isère]], France|| align=center|Downhill || align=center|2nd
|-
| bgcolor="#BOEOE6"| February 29, 1996 ||rowspan=2|[[Narvik]], Norway || bgcolor="#BOEOE6" align=center|Downhill || bgcolor="#BOEOE6" align=center|'''1st'''
|-
| March 1, 1996 || align=center|Downhill || align=center|2nd
|}

==World Championship results==
{| class=wikitable style="text-align:center"
!&nbsp; Year &nbsp; !! &nbsp;Age&nbsp; !! &nbsp;Slalom&nbsp; !! &nbsp;Giant&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;Slalom&nbsp; !! Super G !! Downhill !!Combined
|-
| [[FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1993|1993]] || ''21'' || — || — || — || 10 || style="background:silver;"|2
|-
| [[FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1996|1996]] || ''24'' || — || — || style="background:#c96;"|3 || style="background:gold;"|1 || —
|-
| [[FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1997|1997]] || ''25'' || colspan=6 rowspan=2|<small>''injured, did not compete''</small>
|-
| [[FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1999|1999]] || ''27''
|}

== Olympic results ==
{| class=wikitable style="text-align:center"
!&nbsp; Year &nbsp; !! &nbsp;Age&nbsp; !! &nbsp;Slalom&nbsp; !! &nbsp;Giant&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;Slalom&nbsp; !! Super G !! Downhill !!Combined
|-
| [[Alpine skiing at the 1994 Winter Olympics|1994]] || ''22'' || [[Alpine skiing at the 1994 Winter Olympics – Women's slalom|—]] ||[[Alpine skiing at the 1994 Winter Olympics – Women's giant slalom|—]] || [[Alpine skiing at the 1994 Winter Olympics – Women's super-G|—]] ||style="background:silver;"|[[Alpine skiing at the 1994 Winter Olympics – Women's downhill|2]] ||[[Alpine skiing at the 1994 Winter Olympics – Women's combined|10]]
|-
| [[Alpine skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics|1998]] || ''26'' || [[Alpine skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics – Women's slalom|—]] ||[[Alpine skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics – Women's giant slalom|—]] || style="background:gold;"|[[Alpine skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics – Women's super-G|1]] || [[Alpine skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics – Women's downhill|6]] || [[Alpine skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics – Women's combined|—]]
|-
| [[Alpine skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics|2002]] || ''30'' || [[Alpine skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics – Women's slalom|—]] ||[[Alpine skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics – Women's giant slalom|—]] || [[Alpine skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics – Women's super-G|—]] || [[Alpine skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics – Women's downhill|16]] ||[[Alpine skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics – Women's combined|—]]
|}

==References==
{{reflist}}

== External links ==
{{commons category|Picabo Street}}
* {{FIS alpine skier|59160}}
* {{Ski-DB|picabo_street_usa_wstrpi}}
* [https://skihall.com/hall-of-famers/picabo-street/ Picabo Street] at the [[U.S. Ski & Snowboard Hall of Fame]] – inducted 2004
* {{Team USA Hall of Fame|new_id=picabo-street}}
* {{Olympedia}}
* {{Olympics.com profile|picabo-street}}

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