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Besides her physical conditioning, Street is preparing her mind for her big day at Hakuba, where she learned the downhill course last winter by riding down the mountain on a coach's back. (She'll race in the super-G as well.) Picabo isn't letting public expectations rattle her. "I always put more pressure on myself than anyone could ever put on me. I create that pressure, so therefore I own that pressure," says Street, a believer in meditation and Zen-like attitudes. Hers is a far cry from the old days of the downhill, when some...
...said. "I tried to drink water. My insides felt like California during the earthquake." But somehow as she zipped past red barns and sailed over moose and lynx paths down a sun-striped highway of snow, Roffe-Steinrotter summoned Olympian reserves. First in line among 56 skiers in the super-G, a cross between a downhill and a giant-slalom course, she had no one else's mistakes to guide her. "It's one day, one hill, 1 1/2 minutes," she told herself, "and whoever shakes and bakes the best is going to get the gold...
...first American woman to win an Olympic Alpine ski race in a decade. It was the second surprise victory of the week for the U.S. Her countryman Tommy Moe had blasted off with a gilded glide in the downhill and followed with a silver medal in the men's super-G. "I've skied my butt off," said Moe, a square- jawed, square-talking Alaskan. "Now it's paying off." On Saturday Americans struck ore again with a silver in the women's downhill for the irrepressible Idaho daredevil Picabo Street. "I skied like a dirtbag," she said...
...celebrities, had dominated Olympic skiing for decades. Yet last week a Norwegian (the dynamic Kjetil Andre Aamodt) and a Canadian (the surprising Ed Podivinsky) won silver and bronze medals in downhill after Moe, while a Russian, Svetlana Gladischeva, edged Italian Isolde Kostner for silver in the women's super-G. In the men's super- G, Markus Wasmeier, a Bavarian who likes to play Mozart on his zither, won the gold, beating Moe and Aamodt, who captured the bronze. The French were despondent when their favorites failed to garner medals, and L'Equipe, the national sports daily, struck back...
Tommy Moe stunned the world by capturing the men's downhill and then a silver in the super giant slalom. Diann Roffe-Steinrotter came in first in the women's super-G, and Picabo Street took a silver in the women's downhill...