Picabo Street (/?pi?k?bu?/; born April 3, 1971) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer and Olympic gold medalist from the United States. She won the super G at the 1998 Winter Olympics and the downhill at 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 a nine World Cup downhill race wins. Street was inducted into the National Ski Hall of Fame in 2004.
I'm addicted to speed. Not the drug 'speed', of course, but the rush, the adrenaline of speed. I drive fast, I talk fast, I think fast. I hang out with people who think fast, and I thrive in a speedy atmosphere. I mean, even my golf cart hauls ass. That's just the way it is.
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Appeared as the February featured athlete on the 2002 United States Olympic Team calendar.
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Professional skier.
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Named after the town of Picabo, Idaho.
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Named "Little Girl" for the first 2 years of her life because her parents wanted her to name herself.