Picabo: Nothing to Hide - Hardcover

Street, Picabo; White, Dana

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0071383123 ISBN 13: 9780071383127

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 2001

Synopsis

Picabo Street is the great American champion skier of this generation, having won the silver medal at the Lillehammer Winter Olympics in '94, the World Championship and World Cup titles in '95 and '96, and the Olympic Gold in Nagano, Japan in '98. Three years after a horrific crash that shattered her leg in four places and made headlines around the world, she's coming back for the Salt Lake City Olympics. This is her story.

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From the Back Cover:

The moment she burst onto the world stage at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway, twenty-three year old ski racer Picabo Street ignited a fire of excitement in the media and in the hearts of fans that continues to burn today. Following that silver medal win with two straight World Cup downhill titles­­a feat unmatched in American skiing­­and, finally, the ultimate Olympic gold medal win in Nagano in 1998, the outspoken speed demon who bore a name as unforgettable as her performance was a new kind of female athlete and new kind of role model. But success had its price. In a life marked by extremes­­from the highest accomplishments to the lowest of lows­­Street was about to realize an athlete's greatest fear.

Just one month after grabbing the gold, Street careened off course in a race in Switzerland, snapping her left femur in two, tearing the ligament in her right knee, and leaving her future in doubt. Now, after two years of pain, grueling rehabilitation, and stunning personal growth, Street is making a comeback, ready to face the 2002 Winter Olympics, and ready to tell her inspiring story. It's the story not only an elite athlete, but of a youth of opposites in which Street was "a poor kid in a rich kid's sport, a girl among boys, a free spirit among hard-asses, an American in a sport ruled by Europeans." Above all, it's the story of a girl from a tiny community called Triumph­­who grew up to do just that.

With unflinching honesty Street shares her coming-of-age experience, revealing how adversity shaped a rebellious tomboy into a champion and a compassionate woman, in harmony with her family, at peace with her fear of failure, and having come to terms with the body-image issues faced by every girl. For the first time, Street addresses the scandals surrounding Salt Lake City's bid for the 2002 Winter Olympics; the truth about her unconventional upbringing, and how she overcame a lengthy, debilitating depression.

In the tradition of Lance Armstrong's It's Not About the Bike and Greg Louganis's Breaking the Surface, Picabo: Nothing to Hide is a poignant, intimate account of a woman forced to rebuild herself­­body, mind, and soul.

"I LEARNED WHAT ALL GIRLS NEED TO LEARN: THAT YOU CAN FIGHT TO WIN, AND YOU SHOULD NEVER BE ASHAMED OF IT. DON'T LET ANYTHING SLOW YOU DOWN."

Picabo Street

Patriot, tomboy, household name, Olympic champion . . . the irrepressible young woman who took the slopes­­and our hearts­­by storm in what is often called the NASCAR of winter sports is golden once again, and ready to reveal the trials and triumphs of a life already marked by stunning victory, wrenching defeat, and magnificent mental and physical resilience. Here is Picabo Street­­on and off the skis.

About the Author:

Picabo Street is one of the best-known female athletes the United States and much of the world. The widespread publicity blitz ignited by her Olympic winning performance continues today, promising that she will be one of the most highly publicized athletes to compete at the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah. Street lives in Park City, Utah.

Dana White is a former executive editor of Skiing magazine and senior articles editor at Conde Nast's Women's Sports & Fitness. She has an MFA from the University of California, Irvine's Program in Writing. White lives in Westchester County, New York.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0071383123
• ISBN 13: 9780071383127
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256