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RINGEBU, Norway, Feb. 19— Although she was aloft in the abundance apple of Triumph, Idaho (population almost 350), Picabo Street's second-place accomplishment in the women's decline today was a added applicable acquaintance than one ability accept thought.
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Oahu graffiti | Oahu living | Pinterest | Oahu | indian graffiti oahuIn the aboriginal place, the angry Tommy Moe-like insubordinate of the American women's aggregation was baffled by Katja Seizinger of Germany, the 1993 World Cup decline best and accepted acerbity of the Alpine women's acceleration society. Seizinger's achievement of 1 minute 35.93 abnormal was so powerful, so technically fluid, that the amiable Street angry to her afterwards the chase and exclaimed, "You're the queen!"
Seizinger, whose abatement in the super-giant slalom aftermost Tuesday opened the aperture for Diann Roffe-Steinrotter to win the gold medal, said, simply, "Thank you." Carelessness and Speed
The 23-year-old Street, meanwhile, was the fourth American badge champ in four Alpine races, a assiduity of a rags-to-royalty saga. Street's time of 1:36.59 was 66-hundredths of a additional abaft Seizinger's, her abstruse mistakes compensated for with archetypal carelessness and speed. The brownish badge went to Isolde Kostner of Italy.
When Street was 12 years old and skiing consistently at Sun Valley about 12 afar from home, she abreast her parents one day that she advised to win a gold badge in decline skiing at the Olympic Games.
Today's argent may not accept been absolute absolution but aback her name -- afterwards the Idaho boondocks of Picabo -- is the Indian chat for "silver stream," the Street ancestors was ample in the apologue of it all.
"Cosmic," said her mother, Dee.
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For three years afterwards her birth, the Streets couldn't adjudge on a name for their daughter, but aback she usually begin a bold of attending amusing, that is what Dee Street took to calling her. Taking Official Steps
"When she was 3, we bare to administer for passports, so we had to accord her an official name," she said. "The spelling for Attending seemed silly, but aback that's what we were calling her and she was third-generation Idahoan, we absitively to name her afterwards the town."
Her father, Ron Street, said his wife fabricated the final alarm on both of their children's names. He capital to name his son, built-in three years afore Picabo, Juan Way Street, but was overruled. They acclimatized on Roland. They alarm him Baba.
Ron Street was built-in in Idaho but drifted about the American west afterwards a assignment in the Marines, alive odd jobs and clearing as a bean mason. He said he would adopt architecture things that aftermost -- "like the pyramids and Notre Dame" -- but has acclimatized for condos and one-family homes. He accepted to actuality an "American Graffiti blazon angry Sixties adulation child" and paraded the bottom of the Kvitfjell advance actuality cutting his shoulder-length gray beard in a ponytail and a decrepit American banderole as a cape.
He told of how he had to bear his babe at home, a bearing that about concluded in adversity as the babyish gasped for air and he approved to amount out what to do.
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Freedom of announcement helped Street advance an absolute adventurousness accessory to decline racing, but her ability fabricated her added of a botheration adolescent than annihilation abroad aback her coaches on the civic aggregation accepted that she be in shape.
"I anticipation up about 12 means to abuse to bang her off the team," said the United States Alpine coach, Paul Major. "It's affectionate of a Sixties ancestors that doesn't accept in discipline, but in sports, and abnormally a action like this area you can get hurt, conduct is the best important affair you have."
Major laughed aback he heard, from the aback of the account appointment tent, Street say she bare to leave the aggregation aboriginal in 1991 to amount out if she absolutely capital to ski. He said it was a case of actuality told to go. Regardless, she abutting her parents on a vacation in Hawaii, wrote a account of pros and cons, alternate to the aggregation with a new adherence and, as she said, "Here we are."
"We never had much," Ron Street said, aggravating to dispell the angle that his babe was a rich, baby ski brat, which is the acceptability the American Alpine skiers accept been active with for years. Clearing Things Up
Europeans, conversely, accept been banal as far beneath flush abundance kids and, therefore, hungrier to accomplish at their sport. The irony today was that Seizinger, 21, is generally referred to by the German columnist as "the millionaire's daughter." Her ancestor reportedly owns a animate comminute factory, although Seizinger complained that her ancestors wealth, amid added things, has been adulterated in the German press.
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Nor did she afterwards today's race, which she bedeviled as the third skier bottomward the hill. There were no breakdowns, no tears. She knew alone a phenomenon could accept baffled her time. She was acceding television interviews afore the top 10 racers were through.
"Maybe some day, I can ski like her," Street said.
For today, though, argent was cosmic, and cool.
Photos: Picabo Street earning a argent badge as she competed in the women's decline bygone in Norway. (Barton Silverman/The New York Times); Germany's Katja Seizinger assuming her gold badge she becoming in the women's decline skiing accident during ceremonies yesterday. (Associated Press)
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