1. Picabo Street is an American former World Cup alpine ski racer and Olympic gold medalist.
26 Facts About Picabo Street
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Picabo Street 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.
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Picabo Street was inducted into the National Ski Hall of Fame in 2004.
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Picabo Street was born at home in Triumph, Idaho; her parents are Dee and Roland "Stubby" Picabo Street.
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Picabo Street's 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".
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Picabo Street was named after the nearby village of Picabo.
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Picabo Street was raised on a small farm in Triumph, several miles southeast of Sun Valley, where she learned to ski and race.
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Picabo Street 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.
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Picabo Street joined the US Ski Team in 1989 at the age of 17.
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Picabo Street primarily competed in the speed events of downhill and super G, with her World Cup debut at age 21 in a slalom on December 6 1992.
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Picabo Street 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.
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Picabo Street crashed, snapping her left femur and tearing the ACL in her right knee.
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Picabo Street was in rehabilitation for two years following the accident.
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Picabo 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.
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Picabo Street appeared on the TV shows Nickelodeon GUTS in 1994, and Pyramid.
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Picabo Street performed well on the show American Gladiators, where Street used her strength to defeat the gladiator character "Ice" in a couple of events.
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Picabo Street 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.
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Picabo Street described how she was able to transform from a rebellious tomboy into a world-class athlete.
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Picabo Street appeared in two skits on Sesame Street with the character Elmo and Telly.
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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 peek-a-boo player.
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Picabo Street's name appeared in the song "One Big Mob" by the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers.
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Picabo Street was the runner up in the NBC celebrity reality competition series Stars Earn Stripes.
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Picabo Street is retired and splits her time between homes in Alabama and Winter Park, Colorado.
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Picabo Street has a son born in August 2004, with her former partner N J Pawley.
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On ESPN's College Game Day in Boise on September 25,2010, Picabo Street stated that she was pregnant and expecting her third boy.
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Picabo Street named her skis for people who were strong and meaningful to her.