1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:00:18,719 --> 00:00:22,960 (crowd cheering) 4 00:00:24,879 --> 00:00:28,640 [Announcer] The Olympic flame is now approaching the stadium. 5 00:00:35,719 --> 00:00:38,039 ** 6 00:00:42,479 --> 00:00:45,840 Picabo Street and Cammi Granato. 7 00:00:45,880 --> 00:00:48,359 (crowd cheering) 8 00:00:52,560 --> 00:00:53,960 [News Broadcaster] As the date approaches, 9 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:56,560 you're going to hear lots about Picabo. 10 00:00:56,600 --> 00:00:57,960 An amazing American 11 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:01,560 with an unusual name turns Olympic skiing upside down. 12 00:01:04,519 --> 00:01:06,040 [Picabo] I'm going to tell you all about 13 00:01:06,079 --> 00:01:10,319 my year and how ripping awesome it was because 14 00:01:10,359 --> 00:01:12,319 it felt damn good to kick some Europeans butt. 15 00:01:12,359 --> 00:01:14,159 I'll tell you what. 16 00:01:16,040 --> 00:01:17,480 - It's a European sport, 17 00:01:17,519 --> 00:01:19,959 and frankly, we're an embarrassment. 18 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:22,719 You couldn't find skiing in any newspaper. 19 00:01:22,760 --> 00:01:24,599 Nobody was talking about it. 20 00:01:24,640 --> 00:01:27,959 - Picabo put ski racing back on the map. 21 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:29,439 [Announcer] One of those rare downhillers 22 00:01:29,480 --> 00:01:32,079 whose name has transcended the sport. 23 00:01:32,120 --> 00:01:33,640 Dorfmeister watches 24 00:01:33,680 --> 00:01:36,840 as Picabo Street replaces her as the leader by over a second. 25 00:01:36,879 --> 00:01:38,640 What an amazing run. 26 00:01:39,120 --> 00:01:40,519 - All of a sudden, 27 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:43,560 ski racing is being talked about in someone's household. 28 00:01:43,599 --> 00:01:48,359 - My guest is the infamous Picabo Street. 29 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:51,200 - There's some people where you 30 00:01:51,239 --> 00:01:53,079 know that they've entered the room, 31 00:01:53,120 --> 00:01:54,239 and then there are some people 32 00:01:54,280 --> 00:01:56,760 where you don't really realize they came. 33 00:01:56,799 --> 00:01:58,519 - Thanks, thanks. 34 00:01:58,560 --> 00:02:01,040 - You were tremendous. - You were wonderful. 35 00:02:01,239 --> 00:02:04,400 - When she came into the room, you knew she was there. 36 00:02:04,439 --> 00:02:06,079 - Yahoo!! 37 00:02:06,959 --> 00:02:09,120 (screams) 38 00:02:09,960 --> 00:02:11,280 - In the speed events, 39 00:02:11,319 --> 00:02:14,319 downhill and Super G, Picabo Street is the greatest 40 00:02:14,360 --> 00:02:17,240 North American, male or female ever to race, 41 00:02:17,280 --> 00:02:19,759 and she has paid a physical and emotional price. 42 00:02:21,159 --> 00:02:22,919 - The more fearlessness that you 43 00:02:22,960 --> 00:02:26,680 can demonstrate going down the hill, the better the payoff. 44 00:02:26,719 --> 00:02:28,000 - People ask me, 45 00:02:28,039 --> 00:02:30,000 what are you thinking when you're going that fast? 46 00:02:30,039 --> 00:02:32,680 I said, I'm thinking about how I can go faster. 47 00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:37,360 - For someone to be able to pursue their dream through all 48 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:41,439 that adversity, it takes someone who is radically committed. 49 00:02:41,479 --> 00:02:44,240 In my experience, every single professional 50 00:02:44,280 --> 00:02:46,919 athlete is running to escape something. 51 00:02:47,360 --> 00:02:48,800 - One of the shining stars 52 00:02:48,840 --> 00:02:52,319 from the 1998 Winter Olympics is in trouble with the law. 53 00:02:52,360 --> 00:02:55,199 Picabo Street has been charged with assault and domestic 54 00:02:55,240 --> 00:02:58,520 violence after an incident involving her father. 55 00:02:58,560 --> 00:03:00,120 - After her career, 56 00:03:00,159 --> 00:03:02,919 she was in the press, and that's when she was really 57 00:03:02,960 --> 00:03:05,560 misunderstood and misrepresented. 58 00:03:06,199 --> 00:03:09,759 - She just had a big heart and liked people and was 59 00:03:09,800 --> 00:03:12,120 naturally inclined to help people. 60 00:03:12,159 --> 00:03:13,680 And I think that helped pave 61 00:03:13,719 --> 00:03:17,520 the way for Lindsey and a whole new generation of skiers, too. 62 00:03:17,560 --> 00:03:18,960 - For all the young ones out there 63 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:20,719 that have the same dream, go for it. 64 00:03:20,759 --> 00:03:22,520 Because dreams can come true. 65 00:03:26,080 --> 00:03:29,400 - Lindsey's good friend and mentor, Picabo Street. 66 00:03:29,439 --> 00:03:30,919 (cheering) 67 00:03:31,159 --> 00:03:33,280 - Thank you. 68 00:03:35,240 --> 00:03:36,639 When I met her, she was nine years old. 69 00:03:36,680 --> 00:03:39,680 She stood taller than everybody else and she still does. 70 00:03:39,719 --> 00:03:41,719 I'm super proud of how she's 71 00:03:41,759 --> 00:03:46,039 handled becoming the greatest American skier of all times. 72 00:03:46,800 --> 00:03:48,840 Miss Lindsey Vonn! 73 00:03:48,879 --> 00:03:50,319 (cheering) 74 00:03:50,360 --> 00:03:52,039 - I've looked up to Picabo since 75 00:03:52,080 --> 00:03:54,159 I was a little girl, and it means so much to me 76 00:03:54,199 --> 00:03:59,639 to have her here and to be so supportive over my whole career. 77 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:09,560 - First time, right? - Yep. 78 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:15,479 Nothing like interviewing your idol for your first time. 79 00:04:16,600 --> 00:04:19,240 (calm music) 80 00:04:20,720 --> 00:04:22,000 - I'm always like, 81 00:04:22,040 --> 00:04:24,240 I hate the cold and everyone's like... What? 82 00:04:24,279 --> 00:04:26,120 - Same with me! They're like, what's wrong? 83 00:04:26,160 --> 00:04:27,319 Why are you cold? 84 00:04:27,360 --> 00:04:29,079 I'm like, because I don't like the cold. 85 00:04:29,360 --> 00:04:33,319 - Never liked it. They're like, Why do I go so fast? 86 00:04:33,360 --> 00:04:34,720 I want to get the bottom. 87 00:04:34,759 --> 00:04:36,199 - Put my clothes on. 88 00:04:41,160 --> 00:04:45,120 - When you started skiing, what drew you to it? 89 00:04:45,160 --> 00:04:47,079 What did you love about it? 90 00:04:47,120 --> 00:04:48,720 Did it change when you were a kid 91 00:04:48,759 --> 00:04:50,439 to when you started racing? 92 00:04:50,480 --> 00:04:51,800 - I don't think so. 93 00:04:51,839 --> 00:04:53,519 I think it was the same thing always. 94 00:04:53,560 --> 00:04:55,199 I just fell in love with the speed. 95 00:04:55,240 --> 00:04:58,720 I fell in love with being able to harness that. 96 00:04:58,759 --> 00:05:01,480 And something inside of me felt like this should feel out 97 00:05:01,519 --> 00:05:03,120 of control all the time, but it doesn't. 98 00:05:03,160 --> 00:05:06,240 And I like making it not feel out of control. 99 00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:12,959 - And do you feel like that is different from your life? 100 00:05:13,839 --> 00:05:16,040 I know for me, skiing was always 101 00:05:16,079 --> 00:05:19,360 the outlet where I felt the most in control. 102 00:05:19,399 --> 00:05:22,199 - I would say that for sure because especially, like, 103 00:05:22,240 --> 00:05:24,839 when you're there and you're going, it's you. 104 00:05:24,879 --> 00:05:25,920 When we're going, it's us. 105 00:05:25,959 --> 00:05:27,120 So you're totally relying 106 00:05:27,160 --> 00:05:29,480 on yourself for everything to come through. 107 00:05:31,759 --> 00:05:35,639 (calm music) 108 00:05:39,480 --> 00:05:40,399 (snap) 109 00:05:40,439 --> 00:05:45,360 - Picabo, you are, like, my hero, 110 00:05:45,399 --> 00:05:50,160 and this is such a full circle moment for me. 111 00:05:50,759 --> 00:05:52,920 I am where I am because of you. 112 00:05:52,959 --> 00:05:56,000 And I still have your poster 113 00:05:56,040 --> 00:05:58,920 that you signed when I was nine in my bedroom. 114 00:05:58,959 --> 00:06:01,920 I brought it here just to like, show you... 115 00:06:01,959 --> 00:06:03,120 - To prove it exists. - Yes. 116 00:06:03,160 --> 00:06:05,199 Yeah, like, when we were racing 117 00:06:05,240 --> 00:06:07,040 together, we're on the same team. 118 00:06:07,079 --> 00:06:09,639 But I was like, your shadow. 119 00:06:09,680 --> 00:06:15,120 And so for me, this is such an honor, and I want to know. 120 00:06:15,160 --> 00:06:17,279 I mean, I know pretty much everything there is to know 121 00:06:17,319 --> 00:06:20,040 about you, but where did it all begin? 122 00:06:20,079 --> 00:06:21,560 Where did Picabo come from? 123 00:06:24,920 --> 00:06:28,160 [Picabo] Triumph was the fun sports game beginning for me. 124 00:06:30,399 --> 00:06:35,439 I would do my chores as well as I could do them to earn 125 00:06:35,480 --> 00:06:39,600 the right to go play and figure out who I was. 126 00:06:41,839 --> 00:06:43,000 Growing up here. 127 00:06:43,040 --> 00:06:45,439 As I've gotten older, I look back on it. 128 00:06:45,480 --> 00:06:48,079 Every time I come back here, I think about how 129 00:06:48,120 --> 00:06:51,680 such a small town and so many really close people. 130 00:06:51,720 --> 00:06:53,240 I felt like I had not just 131 00:06:53,279 --> 00:06:56,160 my family, but the family within the community. 132 00:06:56,199 --> 00:07:00,279 It was like 32 people, very work oriented. 133 00:07:05,319 --> 00:07:11,839 I had my brother, was one of seven or eight boys 134 00:07:11,879 --> 00:07:14,560 in town that I had to interact with. 135 00:07:15,959 --> 00:07:17,920 - So you entertained yourself. 136 00:07:17,959 --> 00:07:21,800 And it was bikes and hiking and 137 00:07:21,839 --> 00:07:26,399 cops and robbers and everything was a competition. 138 00:07:27,480 --> 00:07:29,160 [Picabo] I was competitive all the time. 139 00:07:29,199 --> 00:07:31,120 I mean, I had to beat my brother 140 00:07:31,160 --> 00:07:32,560 to the breakfast, lunch, and dinner table. 141 00:07:32,600 --> 00:07:34,720 I had to beat him down with the food. 142 00:07:34,759 --> 00:07:35,959 I had to beat him down with our 143 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:37,199 chores when we got home from school. 144 00:07:37,240 --> 00:07:38,360 I mean, I was competing with him 145 00:07:38,399 --> 00:07:40,560 all my life, in everything I did. 146 00:07:41,319 --> 00:07:44,360 - Peeky was pretty tomboyed out because it was all boys 147 00:07:44,399 --> 00:07:47,800 in the community, and she was going to be a better 148 00:07:47,839 --> 00:07:51,160 boy than the boys were, even though she was a girl. 149 00:07:51,199 --> 00:07:52,480 - If you drove by, 150 00:07:52,519 --> 00:07:54,600 you wouldn't know that there was a girl in the mix. 151 00:07:55,399 --> 00:07:58,800 [Picabo] There's a town 20 miles south of Triumph called Picabo. 152 00:07:58,839 --> 00:08:00,639 The way I spell my name, 153 00:08:00,680 --> 00:08:03,040 it has a beautiful river running through it. 154 00:08:03,079 --> 00:08:04,240 And Picabo is 155 00:08:04,279 --> 00:08:06,560 the Native American name for shining waters. 156 00:08:08,279 --> 00:08:11,120 - We were poor, we didn't have money. 157 00:08:11,160 --> 00:08:13,120 We grew our own food. 158 00:08:13,160 --> 00:08:14,920 We went shopping once and you 159 00:08:14,959 --> 00:08:17,079 wore those clothes and rode the school bus. 160 00:08:19,639 --> 00:08:22,040 - This was my favorite spot. 161 00:08:22,079 --> 00:08:25,319 I learned how to ski right there. 162 00:08:25,360 --> 00:08:29,319 Every time I come back and look at it, I think about how steep 163 00:08:29,360 --> 00:08:34,080 it is and how aggressive that was for me to tackle that. 164 00:08:34,120 --> 00:08:35,720 By the end, I'd come bombing down here. 165 00:08:35,759 --> 00:08:38,320 I remember just bombing down and worrying, actually, 166 00:08:38,360 --> 00:08:40,919 that I would go off into Mom's garden and how much trouble I 167 00:08:40,960 --> 00:08:44,159 was going to get if I did that, but I never did. 168 00:08:44,200 --> 00:08:45,919 - How did you do it yourself? 169 00:08:45,960 --> 00:08:47,360 - I just needed it to happen. 170 00:08:47,399 --> 00:08:49,200 - You just grabbed your brother's equipment? 171 00:08:49,240 --> 00:08:50,600 - I waited for them all to go inside. 172 00:08:50,639 --> 00:08:54,399 It was just like, just kind of stealthy out there. 173 00:08:54,440 --> 00:08:56,519 And he comes out like, what are you doing up there? 174 00:08:56,559 --> 00:08:57,480 And I'm like, Watch. 175 00:08:57,519 --> 00:08:59,480 And I skied and didn't fall down. 176 00:08:59,519 --> 00:09:02,919 And I'm sure it wasn't pretty, but showed some skills. 177 00:09:02,960 --> 00:09:04,720 And he was like, wow. 178 00:09:04,759 --> 00:09:07,559 (calm music) 179 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:11,200 Once I got good enough in the backyard. 180 00:09:11,240 --> 00:09:13,480 Then my first experience was 181 00:09:13,519 --> 00:09:17,240 right over in Sun Valley on Quarter Dollar. 182 00:09:17,279 --> 00:09:19,399 And I got on the chairlift with my brother. 183 00:09:19,440 --> 00:09:23,480 I held on like a little baby the whole way up the chairlift. 184 00:09:23,519 --> 00:09:26,000 We got off the top and I went straight to the bottom. 185 00:09:26,039 --> 00:09:29,519 Straight was fearless, stiff legged snow plow out 186 00:09:29,559 --> 00:09:32,279 there, just bumping along and got to the bottom. 187 00:09:32,320 --> 00:09:35,559 And my brother came down and he said to me, you can turn. 188 00:09:35,600 --> 00:09:37,720 And I said, Why? 189 00:09:38,720 --> 00:09:39,960 One of the things my dad did, 190 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:42,600 we'd get to the top of the mountain, 9:15 a.m.. 191 00:09:42,639 --> 00:09:47,399 And he'd say to me, all right, well, we're headed to the bowls 192 00:09:47,440 --> 00:09:50,519 and you're welcome to come, but keep up. 193 00:09:50,559 --> 00:09:52,320 Otherwise we'll see at the car at four o'clock. 194 00:09:52,360 --> 00:09:54,519 And I'm thinking, four o'clock?! 195 00:09:54,559 --> 00:09:57,039 I don't have any money. I can't get lunch. 196 00:09:57,080 --> 00:09:58,919 I got to keep up. 197 00:09:58,960 --> 00:10:00,519 So, I mean, I learned how to be 198 00:10:00,559 --> 00:10:04,080 the skier I am because of the mountain right here, Baldy. 199 00:10:04,120 --> 00:10:05,679 It's an amazing mountain. 200 00:10:06,759 --> 00:10:09,559 From then on, it's basically been downhill for me. 201 00:10:11,639 --> 00:10:14,279 - She was always chasing the groups ahead of her because 202 00:10:14,320 --> 00:10:16,519 she was beating everybody her own age. 203 00:10:16,559 --> 00:10:18,320 She would beat all the girls and the boys, 204 00:10:18,360 --> 00:10:20,679 and then she'd start going after the groups ahead of her. 205 00:10:20,720 --> 00:10:22,360 The older kids. 206 00:10:22,799 --> 00:10:26,919 Mom said, she goes, I had two jobs in life. With you, 207 00:10:26,960 --> 00:10:28,480 it was keeping you fed. 208 00:10:28,519 --> 00:10:31,399 And she goes as far as Peek, It was keeping her alive. 209 00:10:33,360 --> 00:10:37,440 - She was a full time kid, you know, one of those that you 210 00:10:37,480 --> 00:10:41,080 have to run around after all the time, keep them safe. 211 00:10:41,120 --> 00:10:42,720 - My father raised me like, 212 00:10:42,759 --> 00:10:46,120 you work hard and then you play hard, kind of get your chores 213 00:10:46,159 --> 00:10:48,120 done and then have at it kind of thing. 214 00:10:48,159 --> 00:10:50,480 So, yeah, I've always raised them like that. 215 00:10:51,759 --> 00:10:53,720 [Picabo] My father was a stonemason 216 00:10:53,759 --> 00:10:55,879 and he built some of the coolest 217 00:10:55,919 --> 00:10:59,720 and most beautiful structures in the Sun Valley area. 218 00:11:00,600 --> 00:11:02,720 [Baba] An attribute of dad that a lot 219 00:11:02,759 --> 00:11:04,240 people didn't know is 220 00:11:04,279 --> 00:11:06,639 that the guy would have given you the shirt off on his back. 221 00:11:07,960 --> 00:11:10,759 He was an extremely giving person, 222 00:11:11,399 --> 00:11:16,120 but dad carried a lot of anger in his life. 223 00:11:17,039 --> 00:11:19,480 [Picabo] My father was raised in a very 224 00:11:19,519 --> 00:11:24,919 uncomfortable environment, and he didn't know how to set up 225 00:11:24,960 --> 00:11:26,559 a more comfortable environment himself. 226 00:11:29,159 --> 00:11:31,679 If you grew up in this atmosphere, you know it when 227 00:11:31,720 --> 00:11:34,360 you're asleep and you wake up to your parents fighting. 228 00:11:34,399 --> 00:11:36,039 There's a certain thump on the floor. 229 00:11:36,080 --> 00:11:38,120 There's a certain sound of the slap. 230 00:11:38,159 --> 00:11:39,720 There's a certain 231 00:11:39,759 --> 00:11:43,480 velocity in a voice that stays with you forever. 232 00:11:44,960 --> 00:11:46,320 And I just looked for positive 233 00:11:46,360 --> 00:11:48,320 energy in life where it had it to give me. 234 00:11:49,879 --> 00:11:51,279 I love the view from the top 235 00:11:51,320 --> 00:11:55,120 of a mountain, and it was an escape for me. 236 00:11:57,559 --> 00:11:59,159 [Announcer] On every corner of this 237 00:11:59,200 --> 00:12:02,720 magnificent city, Olympic fever is in the air. 238 00:12:03,360 --> 00:12:07,320 The women's Giant Slalom is the first Alpine event to be held. 239 00:12:07,360 --> 00:12:10,000 Cristin Cooper, Debbie Armstrong, 240 00:12:10,039 --> 00:12:14,360 Tamara McKinney formed the core of America's hope for medals. 241 00:12:15,279 --> 00:12:17,720 [Picabo] I didn't watch TV till I was 13 years old, 242 00:12:17,759 --> 00:12:22,240 and when I saw Cristin Cooper and Tamara McKinney skiing, 243 00:12:22,279 --> 00:12:25,120 I realized, wow, that's what I want to do. 244 00:12:25,159 --> 00:12:26,679 That's where I want to be. 245 00:12:29,080 --> 00:12:31,679 (upbeat music) 246 00:12:33,360 --> 00:12:35,080 That was it. That was me. 247 00:12:35,120 --> 00:12:37,120 That was what I wanted to do. 248 00:12:37,159 --> 00:12:40,159 I, in all my innocence, looked up at my father and said, 249 00:12:40,440 --> 00:12:42,320 Hey Dad, I want to go to the Olympics 250 00:12:42,360 --> 00:12:44,240 and win a medal in skiing. 251 00:12:44,879 --> 00:12:48,120 That's when he turns and goes, Great. 252 00:12:48,159 --> 00:12:49,919 Sounds like a good plan. 253 00:12:49,960 --> 00:12:52,120 Family apples are all going in your basket. 254 00:12:52,159 --> 00:12:53,720 Don't drop it. 255 00:12:54,200 --> 00:12:56,360 From the time when I was 10 to about 15, 256 00:12:56,399 --> 00:12:59,159 we really were hammering everything into my skiing. 257 00:12:59,200 --> 00:13:01,120 All the money we brought in as 258 00:13:01,159 --> 00:13:03,519 a family, cleaning houses, and my dad doing his 259 00:13:03,559 --> 00:13:06,919 stonemasonry went right into me skiing. 260 00:13:06,960 --> 00:13:08,840 - Picabo is remarkable. 261 00:13:08,879 --> 00:13:11,120 Came from a very hard working family. 262 00:13:11,159 --> 00:13:13,759 They didn't have the money to take care of everything, 263 00:13:13,799 --> 00:13:15,840 so we helped her whenever we could. 264 00:13:15,879 --> 00:13:17,080 We went out and found money. 265 00:13:17,120 --> 00:13:18,639 We found equipment. 266 00:13:18,679 --> 00:13:21,759 - It's an expensive sport, we'll call it. 267 00:13:21,799 --> 00:13:24,720 So there's a demographic of people that are involved 268 00:13:24,759 --> 00:13:27,279 in it, and there's a demographic that aren't. 269 00:13:27,320 --> 00:13:30,000 That was what really fueled her 270 00:13:30,039 --> 00:13:34,559 fire to, okay, well, I'm going to beat your ass 271 00:13:34,600 --> 00:13:38,200 in my rags while you're wearing your Gucci. 272 00:13:38,720 --> 00:13:40,519 And she did. 273 00:13:42,279 --> 00:13:44,080 - The very first time she showed up. 274 00:13:44,120 --> 00:13:45,519 And she had mentioned her name 275 00:13:45,559 --> 00:13:48,360 was Picabo, and one of the boys was teasing her about it. 276 00:13:48,399 --> 00:13:50,840 Well, next thing I know, that boy is coming to me. 277 00:13:50,879 --> 00:13:52,519 He's got a bloody nose and he's crying. 278 00:13:52,559 --> 00:13:56,320 And he's going I said, What in the heck happened to you? 279 00:13:56,360 --> 00:13:58,960 And he said, Well, Picabo, she hit me. 280 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:01,519 And I said, well, why did she hit you? 281 00:14:01,559 --> 00:14:04,600 He says, Because I was teasing her about her name. 282 00:14:04,639 --> 00:14:06,519 I mean, she was just tough. 283 00:14:07,399 --> 00:14:08,600 [Picabo] There were a lot of times when I 284 00:14:08,639 --> 00:14:11,159 just walked away, kind of holding my head low 285 00:14:11,200 --> 00:14:15,120 because I was a little bit embarrassed about how many 286 00:14:15,159 --> 00:14:17,120 people I had beaten, how fast I had actually gone. 287 00:14:17,159 --> 00:14:19,120 And I didn't have anything else 288 00:14:19,159 --> 00:14:21,960 in mind but skiing as fast as I possibly could. 289 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:24,120 [Announcer] Out front is Jean Claude Killy, 290 00:14:24,159 --> 00:14:27,120 one of the greatest Champions of all time. 291 00:14:27,159 --> 00:14:29,080 [Picabo] My dad, he drove the bus 292 00:14:29,120 --> 00:14:30,840 for the Sun Valley Ski Resort. 293 00:14:30,879 --> 00:14:33,399 He used to drive Jean Claude Killy. 294 00:14:34,159 --> 00:14:35,480 So Jean gets off the bus one 295 00:14:35,519 --> 00:14:39,919 day, and my dad goes, So my daughter's a ski racer. 296 00:14:39,960 --> 00:14:41,600 And John turns around. Oh, really? 297 00:14:41,639 --> 00:14:43,639 It's like, yeah, she skis for the local team here. 298 00:14:43,679 --> 00:14:45,159 She's actually 299 00:14:45,200 --> 00:14:47,480 on the US Development Team now, and she's dreaming of going 300 00:14:47,519 --> 00:14:49,960 to the Olympics and winning a gold medal one day. 301 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:51,919 And Jean Claude is like, what's her name? 302 00:14:51,960 --> 00:14:53,120 I'll keep track of her. 303 00:14:53,159 --> 00:14:54,600 Then he comes home and tells us 304 00:14:54,639 --> 00:14:56,840 at dinner that night, oh, I told Jean Claude Killy about you. 305 00:14:56,879 --> 00:14:58,000 I'm like, who's that? 306 00:14:58,039 --> 00:15:00,120 He's like, just the greatest skier ever. 307 00:15:00,159 --> 00:15:01,440 It made me super excited. 308 00:15:01,480 --> 00:15:02,600 Like, yeah, my dad believes in me. 309 00:15:02,639 --> 00:15:05,000 But at the same time, I was like (gasps) 310 00:15:05,039 --> 00:15:07,120 (upbeat music) 311 00:15:07,960 --> 00:15:10,440 - I was lucky to be invited to be 312 00:15:10,480 --> 00:15:12,759 the head coach for this junior team. 313 00:15:12,799 --> 00:15:16,440 An amazing group of young women came along, including Picabo. 314 00:15:16,480 --> 00:15:18,080 When she was 14. 315 00:15:18,120 --> 00:15:19,480 Picabo was brash, 316 00:15:19,519 --> 00:15:21,879 and everybody around her was a little brash going, 317 00:15:21,919 --> 00:15:25,159 this is the next Olympic gold medalist, and you've got to take 318 00:15:25,200 --> 00:15:27,720 her immediately onto the ski team, 319 00:15:27,759 --> 00:15:30,679 but you've got to have the maturity with all 320 00:15:30,720 --> 00:15:33,480 the demands of wearing a national team uniform. 321 00:15:35,759 --> 00:15:37,279 [Heidi Voelker] I think back, 322 00:15:37,320 --> 00:15:41,360 being on the US Ski Team at such a young age, it's mind blowing. 323 00:15:41,399 --> 00:15:44,639 I mean, in a sense, the US Ski Team raised us. 324 00:15:44,679 --> 00:15:48,440 We were gone from our families ten months out of the year. 325 00:15:50,919 --> 00:15:53,919 - They're videoing us coming to you live 326 00:15:53,960 --> 00:15:55,279 from Lone, Norway. 327 00:15:57,960 --> 00:15:59,879 - Did you fit in? Do you think? - No. 328 00:16:00,320 --> 00:16:02,639 No, I didn't fit in very much at all. 329 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:04,600 I was sassy. 330 00:16:04,639 --> 00:16:06,399 I was irreverent and driven. 331 00:16:06,440 --> 00:16:09,559 I was competitive, but more so with myself than anyone else. 332 00:16:10,480 --> 00:16:12,080 - Some of the ski coaches would say, 333 00:16:12,120 --> 00:16:14,320 there's no doubt about it. Picabo street has great 334 00:16:14,360 --> 00:16:18,679 natural ability, but she doesn't work like she should. 335 00:16:18,720 --> 00:16:20,960 - I think they could say that about me at one point in time. 336 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:22,279 And they did. - At this early stage. 337 00:16:22,320 --> 00:16:23,440 - At this early stage, 338 00:16:23,480 --> 00:16:25,720 when I first got on, they believed that. 339 00:16:25,759 --> 00:16:26,919 And these exact words, 340 00:16:26,960 --> 00:16:28,159 Picabo Street will never amount to anything. 341 00:16:28,200 --> 00:16:29,919 She cannot follow the rules. 342 00:16:29,960 --> 00:16:31,120 (chuckles) 343 00:16:31,159 --> 00:16:32,919 And when I heard that one, I just laughed. 344 00:16:32,960 --> 00:16:35,720 Like, rules are meant to be broken. 345 00:16:35,759 --> 00:16:36,919 And that's kind of how I felt. 346 00:16:36,960 --> 00:16:38,919 And I was going to make it work. 347 00:16:38,960 --> 00:16:40,919 - Don't! It's gonna look so bad on camera. 348 00:16:40,960 --> 00:16:44,120 - I showed up to camp fat, sassy. 349 00:16:44,159 --> 00:16:46,360 And so it was like, you're gone. Boom, out of here. 350 00:16:46,399 --> 00:16:48,320 You're gone off the team, sent home. 351 00:16:48,360 --> 00:16:50,320 Lied to my dad, tried telling me, fine, 352 00:16:50,360 --> 00:16:52,879 I'm training, whatever he's like, here's what's happening. 353 00:16:52,919 --> 00:16:54,120 The apple basket dropped. 354 00:16:54,159 --> 00:16:55,559 The apples are all over everywhere. 355 00:16:55,600 --> 00:16:57,320 And you need to start gathering them up and put them 356 00:16:57,360 --> 00:17:00,440 in a basket, and you need to get on a plane on Monday for Hawaii. 357 00:17:01,279 --> 00:17:03,240 - Your dad, in fact, gave you two options. 358 00:17:03,279 --> 00:17:05,640 He said, either hit the highway or come join me. 359 00:17:05,680 --> 00:17:07,720 And your parents had moved to Maui at the time, 360 00:17:07,759 --> 00:17:09,960 and he was a mason rebuilding walls and things. 361 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:12,359 He said, Come work with me for a while. 362 00:17:13,119 --> 00:17:16,240 - I think the situation was that it was time for her 363 00:17:16,279 --> 00:17:18,319 to decide if she really wanted it or not. 364 00:17:18,359 --> 00:17:23,160 And we did kind of put her on the spot. 365 00:17:24,319 --> 00:17:26,920 [Picabo] But it's hard to be in Hawaii on boot camp. 366 00:17:26,960 --> 00:17:29,119 - Who was your trainer? - Just my dad. 367 00:17:29,160 --> 00:17:31,519 The Marine stepped in. 368 00:17:31,559 --> 00:17:32,720 - Your dad was a Marine? 369 00:17:32,759 --> 00:17:34,599 - My dad was a Marine. - I didn't know that. 370 00:17:34,640 --> 00:17:35,920 - Yeah. 371 00:17:35,960 --> 00:17:39,279 - So you went back and you did a lot of hard, manual 372 00:17:39,319 --> 00:17:41,319 labor that kind of straightened you out a little bit, didn't it? 373 00:17:41,359 --> 00:17:42,759 - It did. It did straight me out. 374 00:17:42,799 --> 00:17:45,079 I mean, I was studying hard, finishing up my high school. 375 00:17:45,119 --> 00:17:46,200 I couldn't talk on the phone. 376 00:17:46,240 --> 00:17:47,640 I couldn't go out. 377 00:17:47,680 --> 00:17:49,480 I was under Dad's thumb. 378 00:17:50,640 --> 00:17:52,200 I grew a lot. 379 00:17:52,240 --> 00:17:54,400 My dad's and my relationship 380 00:17:54,440 --> 00:17:59,039 bonded at a new level because when I left, he slipped a 50 381 00:17:59,079 --> 00:18:00,960 in an envelope, and he wrote a little note. 382 00:18:02,599 --> 00:18:04,400 And his exact words were, 383 00:18:05,480 --> 00:18:07,960 Your best interest is my only concern. 384 00:18:10,359 --> 00:18:13,279 And I was like, I got to do this. 385 00:18:13,319 --> 00:18:14,759 That's all he cares about. 386 00:18:14,799 --> 00:18:17,319 That's all he wants me to do is be the best that I can be. 387 00:18:17,359 --> 00:18:19,319 And he knows I can be the best in the world. 388 00:18:22,680 --> 00:18:25,440 [Announcer] The United States of America! 389 00:18:25,480 --> 00:18:27,640 (cheering) 390 00:18:28,480 --> 00:18:31,599 - She was really ready to come on in 93. 391 00:18:31,640 --> 00:18:35,200 And that's when we had the World Championships in Morioka. 392 00:18:37,480 --> 00:18:40,119 And she won a silver medal in the combined. 393 00:18:40,160 --> 00:18:42,480 And completely unexpected. 394 00:18:42,519 --> 00:18:45,119 The European coaches were just snickering. 395 00:18:45,160 --> 00:18:47,160 What is this name? Picabo? 396 00:18:47,200 --> 00:18:49,440 It's not even a real name. 397 00:18:49,480 --> 00:18:50,839 - Ching ching! 398 00:18:50,880 --> 00:18:52,640 Oh, my God. 399 00:18:53,480 --> 00:18:55,920 Ching ching. - Go ahead and buy that Harley. 400 00:18:55,960 --> 00:18:58,200 - * I'm gonna be riding a Harley! * 401 00:18:59,160 --> 00:19:00,440 - Did you have any expectations 402 00:19:00,480 --> 00:19:01,720 coming into the World Championships, 403 00:19:01,759 --> 00:19:04,200 Picabo, that a medal was a possibility for you? 404 00:19:04,240 --> 00:19:07,039 - Yeah, I did. For the combined. 405 00:19:07,079 --> 00:19:09,200 I knew that I could for sure be 406 00:19:09,240 --> 00:19:11,160 top five, and I was hoping for a top three. 407 00:19:11,640 --> 00:19:13,440 So, yes. 408 00:19:16,960 --> 00:19:19,160 - I was with the Austrian ski team, 409 00:19:19,200 --> 00:19:20,359 and we had an athlete 410 00:19:20,400 --> 00:19:23,039 that normally should have won the combined. 411 00:19:23,079 --> 00:19:26,079 Her name was Anita Wachter. She was third. 412 00:19:26,119 --> 00:19:28,440 So when I had to do an interview after the race, 413 00:19:28,480 --> 00:19:32,799 the journalist said, So you guys lost a silver medal today? 414 00:19:32,839 --> 00:19:33,799 And I said, no, no, no. 415 00:19:33,839 --> 00:19:35,119 We won the bronze. 416 00:19:35,160 --> 00:19:36,920 And the journalist said, no, 417 00:19:36,960 --> 00:19:39,880 you lost a silver medal because of Picabo. 418 00:19:40,359 --> 00:19:43,119 (crowd cheers) - Woo-hoo! 419 00:19:43,920 --> 00:19:47,000 - And this was actually the first time my ears went up 420 00:19:47,039 --> 00:19:49,960 and said, Okay, who is she? 421 00:19:51,279 --> 00:19:53,400 When you're coaching, when you're connoisseur 422 00:19:53,440 --> 00:19:56,559 of the whole thing, you look at different techniques of skiing. 423 00:19:56,599 --> 00:19:59,920 And one thing that caught my attention was a skill set 424 00:19:59,960 --> 00:20:02,720 that Picabo had. We call it gliding 425 00:20:04,160 --> 00:20:08,119 in a very low tuck and being very fast in flat sections. 426 00:20:08,160 --> 00:20:10,599 And that's a big thing that speed limits. 427 00:20:12,440 --> 00:20:14,920 When you drive 80 miles an hour. 428 00:20:14,960 --> 00:20:16,519 Open up the window and put your 429 00:20:16,559 --> 00:20:21,400 hand out the window, and you're going to go, almost lost my arm. 430 00:20:22,640 --> 00:20:25,359 It gives you a pretty good feeling how the air is 431 00:20:25,400 --> 00:20:27,559 a resistance and also makes noise. 432 00:20:27,599 --> 00:20:30,559 And a lot of athletes at that level can hear 433 00:20:30,599 --> 00:20:34,640 the noise, and they adjust their body position very clearly. 434 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:39,240 - She could generate speed by just 435 00:20:39,279 --> 00:20:42,759 gliding on the snow that nobody else we've ever seen do. 436 00:20:49,359 --> 00:20:52,119 [Picabo] I went in the scientific wind 437 00:20:52,160 --> 00:20:56,720 tunnel that they use to measure our aerodynamics. 438 00:20:56,759 --> 00:20:58,759 - With the hands and the arms 439 00:20:59,839 --> 00:21:02,599 you've got to come out there. 440 00:21:04,480 --> 00:21:07,400 [Picabo] I spent 35 minutes with the guy 441 00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:10,680 on different kinds of stances and positions, trying to figure 442 00:21:10,720 --> 00:21:13,000 out which one was the best for me. 443 00:21:13,039 --> 00:21:17,200 And my legs got tired, and I just kind of relaxed 444 00:21:17,240 --> 00:21:20,960 into this really low, comfortable position. 445 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:23,759 My drag dropped three points. 446 00:21:23,799 --> 00:21:25,039 We both looked at each other 447 00:21:25,079 --> 00:21:27,920 and smiled like, oh, my goodness, 448 00:21:27,960 --> 00:21:31,359 we just found a little edge that no one will ever have it. 449 00:21:37,160 --> 00:21:38,440 [Announcer] Welcome to Norway. 450 00:21:38,480 --> 00:21:41,240 Where once again, Winter Games will be played. 451 00:21:41,279 --> 00:21:43,119 Only now there will be cheering 452 00:21:43,160 --> 00:21:46,359 crowds, and all the world will see. 453 00:21:48,519 --> 00:21:51,920 - We were just thrilled that she had made the Olympic team. 454 00:21:51,960 --> 00:21:53,920 She was in high 20's. 455 00:21:53,960 --> 00:21:57,079 30 result skier, which at that point, 456 00:21:57,119 --> 00:21:59,920 you're the 30th best skier on the planet. 457 00:21:59,960 --> 00:22:01,720 That's pretty impressive. 458 00:22:03,960 --> 00:22:07,279 - I remember being beside myself to go to the first Olympics. 459 00:22:07,319 --> 00:22:08,359 This is the real deal. 460 00:22:08,400 --> 00:22:10,559 We are super far away from home, 461 00:22:10,599 --> 00:22:15,160 meeting all the other athletes and getting in your uniform and 462 00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:18,440 finally getting something that says USA in letters 463 00:22:18,480 --> 00:22:21,799 that you're going to put on your back like, oh, my goodness. 464 00:22:22,039 --> 00:22:25,079 [Announcer] Welcome United States of America. 465 00:22:25,119 --> 00:22:27,599 - It's like, it's happening! This is real. 466 00:22:28,599 --> 00:22:31,160 (crowd cheering) 467 00:22:37,480 --> 00:22:40,000 (crowd cheering) 468 00:22:42,160 --> 00:22:44,519 [Announcer] More than 170,000 race fans 469 00:22:44,559 --> 00:22:48,079 have made their way to Norway's white Mountain, Kvitfjell. 470 00:22:48,119 --> 00:22:50,440 They have created an unparalleled festive 471 00:22:50,480 --> 00:22:53,359 atmosphere under bright, sunny sky. 472 00:22:56,359 --> 00:22:59,119 - The interesting story behind Lilyhammer 473 00:22:59,160 --> 00:23:02,160 is the original course they picked was on a different 474 00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:06,039 mountain, and the top part was relatively flat. 475 00:23:07,319 --> 00:23:09,839 There was nobody on the planet 476 00:23:09,880 --> 00:23:12,440 who could ski flats as fast as Picabo. 477 00:23:13,279 --> 00:23:15,519 German team is protesting. 478 00:23:15,559 --> 00:23:16,720 Got to move this race 479 00:23:16,759 --> 00:23:19,200 from the women's course to the men's course. 480 00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:21,440 - Olympic history will be made here at Kvitfjell 481 00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:23,759 in the downhill, where for the first time ever, 482 00:23:23,799 --> 00:23:26,559 the women will compete on the same course as the men. 483 00:23:27,240 --> 00:23:30,559 - It's a European sport, and we were total underdogs. 484 00:23:31,039 --> 00:23:33,359 (indistinct announcer) 485 00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:35,599 What's gratifying is stay 486 00:23:35,640 --> 00:23:39,200 focused and, frankly, beat the Europeans at their own game. 487 00:23:39,240 --> 00:23:44,039 [Announcer] Seizinger. There's the leading time now by 1.24. 488 00:23:47,240 --> 00:23:51,119 We're back at Kvitjfell, and it's time for Picabo Street. 489 00:23:51,960 --> 00:23:54,400 (Picabo singing) 490 00:23:55,480 --> 00:23:58,000 - What are you listening to? - Gabriella. 491 00:24:05,119 --> 00:24:07,039 [Announcer] Her thing is going fast, 492 00:24:07,079 --> 00:24:09,400 and she's next to chase Katja Seizinger 493 00:24:09,440 --> 00:24:11,640 and her teammate, Hilary Lynn. 494 00:24:12,920 --> 00:24:14,359 Picabo's parents, 495 00:24:14,400 --> 00:24:16,200 who arrived a couple of days ago 496 00:24:17,039 --> 00:24:18,720 here for the big moment. 497 00:24:20,519 --> 00:24:21,559 (beep) 498 00:24:21,599 --> 00:24:23,759 - All right, Peek. (indistinct) Come on. 499 00:24:23,799 --> 00:24:24,920 (beep) 500 00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:26,160 (beep) 501 00:24:35,039 --> 00:24:38,160 [Announcer] Aerodynamic foil on top of her boot 502 00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:40,440 so that she slides better 503 00:24:40,480 --> 00:24:42,119 through the air down here on the flat. 504 00:24:42,160 --> 00:24:45,559 Now, Picabo is known for being a great glider. 505 00:24:46,640 --> 00:24:49,359 She has a very fine feel for the snow. 506 00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:52,000 Let the speed run over it well, and it's so amazing. 507 00:24:52,039 --> 00:24:54,720 I mean, a year ago at this time, Picabo Street, 508 00:24:54,759 --> 00:24:56,119 nobody would have known her name. 509 00:24:56,160 --> 00:24:57,599 And she went to medal in the decline 510 00:24:57,640 --> 00:24:59,480 at the World's Championship and ever since then 511 00:24:59,519 --> 00:25:02,400 she's just gotten better and better with every race. 512 00:25:07,319 --> 00:25:12,119 [Picabo] I had someone ask me, what is it about skiing for you? 513 00:25:12,160 --> 00:25:13,960 And I said, it's the speed. 514 00:25:16,160 --> 00:25:17,519 Your skis are kind of like your 515 00:25:17,559 --> 00:25:22,119 race car, but you're driving it from a real raw place. 516 00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:24,480 It doesn't get much more intense 517 00:25:24,519 --> 00:25:27,200 than that as far as being in that danger element. 518 00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:33,799 Control over that amount 519 00:25:33,839 --> 00:25:38,440 of speed and those aggressive of physical movements 520 00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:45,960 and that many G-Forces in a turn that are solely created by me. 521 00:25:48,519 --> 00:25:50,599 (crowd cheers) 522 00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:54,039 [Announcer] One more turn to the final. 523 00:25:54,079 --> 00:25:56,119 Into the finish area. 524 00:25:56,759 --> 00:25:59,240 (indistinct) 525 00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:03,079 Seventy miles an hour to the finish line for Picabo Street. 526 00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:05,200 Into second place. 527 00:26:05,759 --> 00:26:08,000 (cheering) 528 00:26:10,759 --> 00:26:13,759 (upbeat music) 529 00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:17,960 For Picabo Street, in her first Olympics, Silver was great. 530 00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:20,160 - I expected a medal. 531 00:26:20,200 --> 00:26:23,039 I wanted myself to ski well enough to get a medal, 532 00:26:23,079 --> 00:26:26,279 but I was going to settle for a top five, so I still 533 00:26:26,319 --> 00:26:28,960 came home with the medal. That's excellent. 534 00:26:29,799 --> 00:26:32,240 * * 535 00:26:35,319 --> 00:26:38,319 [Announcer] Number two, Picabo Street! 536 00:26:43,319 --> 00:26:45,039 [Picabo] The whole idea that I actually 537 00:26:45,079 --> 00:26:46,559 did it and my dream came true. 538 00:26:46,599 --> 00:26:49,480 Sometimes I still have to pick the medal up and actually get it 539 00:26:49,519 --> 00:26:51,440 in my hand to believe that it really happened. 540 00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:53,559 And then all the memories flow. 541 00:26:54,240 --> 00:26:55,720 The thing that it's created 542 00:26:55,759 --> 00:26:58,839 for me is a bright spot in my life that I have to look 543 00:26:58,880 --> 00:27:01,440 at and remember and to brighten my day. 544 00:27:02,920 --> 00:27:08,160 * * 545 00:27:09,559 --> 00:27:11,160 [Announcer] The winner of the silver medal. 546 00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:13,319 (foreign language) 547 00:27:13,359 --> 00:27:14,160 Picabo Street. 548 00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:16,000 (foreign language) 549 00:27:17,359 --> 00:27:20,640 (cheering) 550 00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:31,160 (crowd singing) 551 00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:35,920 [Picabo] It was all really really super cool, 552 00:27:35,960 --> 00:27:38,119 except for one moment. 553 00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:41,079 The wrong (bleep) flag went up the center. 554 00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:43,720 It was not our flag. 555 00:27:43,759 --> 00:27:45,319 I was a silver medalist. 556 00:27:45,359 --> 00:27:47,920 So as I watched them go up... - Oh, yeah. 557 00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:49,039 - I'm watching mine. 558 00:27:49,079 --> 00:27:50,359 I'm not hearing my anthem. 559 00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:52,319 I'm seeing my flag, but I'm not hearing my anthem. 560 00:27:52,359 --> 00:27:53,960 So it's this moment of like, 561 00:27:55,279 --> 00:27:57,480 I will never step back on this 562 00:27:57,519 --> 00:28:00,079 stage again and hear someone else's anthem. 563 00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:08,559 (indistinct chatter) 564 00:28:10,039 --> 00:28:11,279 My whole family and I just took 565 00:28:11,319 --> 00:28:15,759 a big (sighs) sigh, like, okay, we did it. 566 00:28:15,799 --> 00:28:17,559 Everything that we ever thought 567 00:28:17,599 --> 00:28:22,440 we could do, and as far as we thought we could make it, 568 00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:23,960 we were right. 569 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:27,359 - And we are most pleased to be joined now by Picabo Street. 570 00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:30,160 Newly Crown silver medalist in ladies downhill. 571 00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:32,359 Congratulations to you. - Thank you. 572 00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:34,480 (crowd cheers) 573 00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:40,119 - It was the warrior came home with the victory. 574 00:28:40,559 --> 00:28:42,519 - Picabo, can I get my picture taken with you? 575 00:28:42,559 --> 00:28:43,559 - Sure! - Alright. 576 00:28:46,599 --> 00:28:48,119 [Picabo] The top of my list for things 577 00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:50,680 I'm aiming at, being a role model 578 00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:53,559 now and what not, I'm aiming to the children, 579 00:28:53,599 --> 00:28:55,799 more so than anything. I get such a pleasure out 580 00:28:55,839 --> 00:28:59,319 of being around the kids and seeing what I mean to them. 581 00:28:59,799 --> 00:29:01,039 - She couldn't just walk through 582 00:29:01,079 --> 00:29:03,599 the airport anymore without being recognized. 583 00:29:04,119 --> 00:29:07,000 (cheering) 584 00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:09,359 [Announcer] Downhill silver medalist 585 00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:12,039 Picabo Street arrived in Salt Lake City. 586 00:29:12,599 --> 00:29:15,359 - Her winning and her success made 587 00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:18,920 the family successful and gave opportunities. 588 00:29:18,960 --> 00:29:22,880 Even at 21 years old, that's a lot on someone's shoulders. 589 00:29:23,759 --> 00:29:26,119 - Picabo, we're thinking about making you a Gladiator. 590 00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:27,359 How about that? 591 00:29:27,559 --> 00:29:30,480 - Well, I got to win some more medals first. 592 00:29:30,519 --> 00:29:31,599 Elmo. 593 00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:34,279 I didn't win a medal for playing Picabo. 594 00:29:34,319 --> 00:29:35,319 - No? 595 00:29:35,359 --> 00:29:37,519 - And we've named a street after you. 596 00:29:37,559 --> 00:29:39,519 You have your own street. 597 00:29:39,559 --> 00:29:40,720 And there's... 598 00:29:40,759 --> 00:29:43,000 (clapping) 599 00:29:45,319 --> 00:29:46,920 [Picabo] My dad gave me a sweater, 600 00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:50,079 and he bought me in Glamor, and I wore it. 601 00:29:50,119 --> 00:29:52,200 And I remember feeling really stoked to be, like, 602 00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:55,240 honoring Norway and honoring the Olympics and honoring my dad. 603 00:29:55,279 --> 00:29:56,680 And 604 00:29:56,720 --> 00:30:01,319 he was my Superman and my all in advocate and the person 605 00:30:01,359 --> 00:30:04,559 who believed in me the most and did the most for me. 606 00:30:04,599 --> 00:30:07,200 But he was also the biggest distraction. 607 00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:09,599 I think he honestly spent his 608 00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:13,079 entire adult life in denial that he had diabetes. 609 00:30:13,119 --> 00:30:14,799 There was a point in time when 610 00:30:14,839 --> 00:30:16,960 he was manageable as a diabetic, right? 611 00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:18,960 I'd catch him, he'd be like, I'd come home, 612 00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:21,079 and he'd be on the couch with the remote like this. 613 00:30:21,799 --> 00:30:23,920 - But if I said, hey, dad, you need to get a drink. 614 00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:25,119 Then here came the combative, 615 00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:26,960 oh, you just, you just... 616 00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:28,559 you just, you know, 617 00:30:29,200 --> 00:30:32,240 mess with me, leave me alone. 618 00:30:32,279 --> 00:30:36,119 And those times would escalate, 619 00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:38,519 and you get into situations where 620 00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:42,119 it can get physical. 621 00:30:43,559 --> 00:30:45,519 And we had that, too. 622 00:30:45,559 --> 00:30:47,440 We had domestic violence. 623 00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:51,720 [Picabo] He had kicked my mom so hard 624 00:30:51,759 --> 00:30:54,119 in the shoulder up against the cabin that he separated her 625 00:30:54,160 --> 00:30:55,480 cartilage off her sternum 626 00:30:56,440 --> 00:30:58,200 and broke a rib. 627 00:30:59,359 --> 00:31:03,279 I headed home to be the referee 628 00:31:03,319 --> 00:31:08,200 and be in the middle of my family dynamics again. 629 00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:13,480 The pressure on us as a family to try and maintain our 630 00:31:13,519 --> 00:31:16,559 composure, for me to keep our big secret secret, 631 00:31:16,599 --> 00:31:18,319 and for all these corporations are going, 632 00:31:18,359 --> 00:31:20,759 We love you. You're this great all American 633 00:31:20,799 --> 00:31:23,319 family, and we want to support you. 634 00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:28,319 And so here I am all along, trying to make the show 635 00:31:28,359 --> 00:31:31,319 with my skiing and be this positive, like all American. 636 00:31:31,359 --> 00:31:33,440 And I'm fighting to get this done. 637 00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:35,200 And I'm representing, and you can, too. 638 00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:36,720 And it doesn't matter where you came from. 639 00:31:36,759 --> 00:31:39,200 And all the while, I'm like... 640 00:31:43,599 --> 00:31:46,559 And you just keep fighting and grinding and struggling through. 641 00:31:48,359 --> 00:31:51,400 Climbing that next mountain, looking for that next view. 642 00:31:55,599 --> 00:31:58,720 (indistinct announcer) 643 00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:00,559 [Announcer] Silver in the Olympics, 644 00:32:00,599 --> 00:32:03,119 but never a World Cup winner. Picabo Street has been 645 00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:05,000 a threat to fix that every time out. 646 00:32:05,039 --> 00:32:07,240 World Cup win seems only a matter of time. 647 00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:12,599 (upbeat music) 648 00:32:13,599 --> 00:32:17,319 [Picabo] I don't know why, but it seemed to me like a lot 649 00:32:17,359 --> 00:32:19,960 of times Americans would rise out of nowhere, 650 00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:23,119 win an Olympic medal, and then fall back into nowhere again. 651 00:32:26,519 --> 00:32:30,160 (indistinct announcer) 652 00:32:37,759 --> 00:32:40,119 - The fact that I walked away from a beater like that without 653 00:32:40,160 --> 00:32:43,200 getting hurt was something that was pretty significant 654 00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:45,960 to me, that, believe it or not, gave me a lot of confidence. 655 00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:47,279 And that was kind 656 00:32:47,319 --> 00:32:48,319 of the confidence I needed to go into the season. 657 00:32:48,359 --> 00:32:50,279 And I just built from there. 658 00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:55,680 I never set out to be a flash in the pan in the sport. 659 00:32:55,720 --> 00:32:57,200 And what the Olympics did for me 660 00:32:57,240 --> 00:32:59,599 is proved to me that no matter how intense the level 661 00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:02,079 of competition you throw at me, I'm ready for it. 662 00:33:02,440 --> 00:33:05,079 (upbeat music) 663 00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:08,160 [Announcer[ Street was skiing against 1:41:51 664 00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:11,519 and she didn't just beat it, she destroyed it. 665 00:33:11,559 --> 00:33:12,839 And so the day belonged 666 00:33:12,880 --> 00:33:15,559 to Street, her first ever World Cup win. 667 00:33:15,599 --> 00:33:19,160 Street's margin of victory in skiing terms was huge. 668 00:33:19,200 --> 00:33:21,000 - I'm extremely happy, I can't 669 00:33:21,039 --> 00:33:22,960 explain how happy I am right now. 670 00:33:24,319 --> 00:33:25,839 - When you win in Europe 671 00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:29,880 for the first time, you are a superstar. 672 00:33:29,920 --> 00:33:32,200 You're just looked upon differently. 673 00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:34,720 - We went from showing 674 00:33:34,759 --> 00:33:38,400 that there's huge potential to full on, very quick. 675 00:33:41,559 --> 00:33:44,039 - In sports, Olympian Picabo Street is 676 00:33:44,079 --> 00:33:46,240 making skiing history this season. 677 00:33:46,279 --> 00:33:49,720 Racing in Austria, Street won her third straight 678 00:33:49,759 --> 00:33:53,519 World Cup downhill, something no American has ever done. 679 00:33:53,559 --> 00:33:57,960 She has now won four downhills this year. That is one more than 680 00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:00,720 any American, male or female, has ever won. 681 00:34:01,079 --> 00:34:03,240 (indistinct announcer) 682 00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:07,000 (upbeat music) 683 00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:11,119 - With two races remaining, 684 00:34:11,159 --> 00:34:13,440 Street is first in the World Cup downhill standings. 685 00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:16,679 No American has ever won the downhill title. 686 00:34:16,719 --> 00:34:19,079 [Picabo] We sat down that night in Ernst goes 687 00:34:19,119 --> 00:34:20,599 the deal is you're leading 688 00:34:20,639 --> 00:34:22,719 the downhill standings by so far that if you finish the top three 689 00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:24,960 tomorrow, you'll win the downhill title tomorrow. 690 00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:27,239 And I was like, wow! 691 00:34:29,119 --> 00:34:33,000 (crowd cheering) 692 00:34:35,199 --> 00:34:38,239 (announcer speaking in foreign language) 693 00:34:41,320 --> 00:34:46,599 (announcer speaking in foreign language) 694 00:34:48,960 --> 00:34:50,360 - It was the first time ever that the 695 00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:52,400 US won the overall title in downhill. 696 00:34:53,360 --> 00:34:56,239 (announcer speaking in foreign language) 697 00:34:56,280 --> 00:34:57,760 [Picabo] Standing on that top step, 698 00:34:57,800 --> 00:35:01,440 receiving that globe like it's the most comfortable zone I've 699 00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:04,719 been in, because that's a day in, day out grind. 700 00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:07,039 There's no, 701 00:35:07,079 --> 00:35:08,559 That was a flash in the pan. That was a fluke. 702 00:35:08,599 --> 00:35:10,880 Nothing. There's no writing that off. 703 00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:14,159 (announcer speaking in foreign language) 704 00:35:16,320 --> 00:35:18,519 - I'm really happy with the whole season. 705 00:35:18,559 --> 00:35:19,800 I wasn't able to continue 706 00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:21,719 at quite that high level, winning every race like 707 00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:25,280 Picabo, but I was consistently in there every single race, 708 00:35:25,320 --> 00:35:27,559 and I think it's ended on a good note. 709 00:35:29,840 --> 00:35:31,360 - It's incredible. 710 00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:32,800 I've been around for a long 711 00:35:32,840 --> 00:35:34,920 time, so it's not that easy to get. 712 00:35:34,960 --> 00:35:35,960 That's an incredible 713 00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:37,559 accomplishment for American skiing. 714 00:35:38,760 --> 00:35:39,920 - When they handed that thing 715 00:35:39,960 --> 00:35:43,239 to me, it was one of the more unexpected 716 00:35:43,280 --> 00:35:46,360 and gratifying moments in skiing for me. 717 00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:50,519 But what I realized, as many competitors do, 718 00:35:51,639 --> 00:35:54,480 once you win one, you want another one. 719 00:35:54,519 --> 00:35:56,039 It's addicting. 720 00:35:56,079 --> 00:35:57,960 (laughter) 721 00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:00,559 Oh, I'm not crying. No way. 722 00:36:00,599 --> 00:36:03,159 Just the downhill title. Ha! 723 00:36:03,199 --> 00:36:06,159 I cried like a baby when they put that thing in my hand. 724 00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:11,559 (indistinct chatter) 725 00:36:14,360 --> 00:36:17,719 - We were the team to beat and to drive into every one 726 00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:21,400 of these resorts and show up and be the team to beat. 727 00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:23,000 The Americans hadn't felt like 728 00:36:23,039 --> 00:36:25,960 that for 15 years, so that was a big change. 729 00:36:27,639 --> 00:36:30,960 [Announcer] Picabo Street from Sun Valley, Idaho. 730 00:36:31,960 --> 00:36:33,320 - Olympic silver medalist 731 00:36:33,360 --> 00:36:36,039 Picabo Street has a winning personality to go with her 732 00:36:36,079 --> 00:36:38,760 winning streak. And what a streak. 733 00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:40,280 You and Hilary Lynn. 734 00:36:40,320 --> 00:36:43,599 I mean, did you win every single race but one downhill this year? 735 00:36:43,639 --> 00:36:45,320 - Yeah, we did. It was an interesting year 736 00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:47,480 for sure, for the Europeans to be chasing the Americans 737 00:36:47,519 --> 00:36:48,840 for the first time ever. 738 00:36:48,880 --> 00:36:52,159 (cheering) 739 00:36:52,920 --> 00:36:54,360 I feel awesome about what I've 740 00:36:54,400 --> 00:36:56,719 just done, and believe it or not, it's made me more hungry. 741 00:36:56,760 --> 00:36:59,760 If you can leave it to win more. I'm such a pig. 742 00:36:59,800 --> 00:37:02,199 I can't get enough, but I'm into it. 743 00:37:02,239 --> 00:37:04,920 I'm liking winning, and I'm going to continue. 744 00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:06,039 - I have a letter from 745 00:37:06,079 --> 00:37:07,480 Mr. Bill Clinton in the White House, 746 00:37:07,519 --> 00:37:11,119 our President of the United States. Miss Picabo Street. 747 00:37:11,159 --> 00:37:13,480 - Finally! (laughter) 748 00:37:14,599 --> 00:37:18,519 - Dear Picabo, your exceptional talent and your winning attitude 749 00:37:18,559 --> 00:37:20,559 have captured the hearts of Americans and earned 750 00:37:20,599 --> 00:37:22,760 the admiration of athletes around the globe. 751 00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:24,960 (clapping) 752 00:37:25,360 --> 00:37:28,719 - Now, my message to the kids, get out and free ski and let 753 00:37:28,760 --> 00:37:31,519 this mountain turn you into the skier that you can be. 754 00:37:31,559 --> 00:37:33,000 Because it will. 755 00:37:33,039 --> 00:37:35,480 The feeling of flying on your boards with 7,000 pounds of 756 00:37:35,519 --> 00:37:38,320 G-Force on your leg and you're just making the fattest arc 757 00:37:38,360 --> 00:37:40,280 and there's no snow coming off your edge and, you know, 758 00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:42,719 you're just smoking and it's like, that's the feeling. 759 00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:45,679 It's the scheme feeling that you know and you yearn for. 760 00:37:45,719 --> 00:37:48,039 And when you feel it, there's nothing better in the world. 761 00:37:48,079 --> 00:37:50,840 There is nothing that's tops a flat ski arc. 762 00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:53,920 (laughter and applause) 763 00:37:54,239 --> 00:37:57,840 - You changed the game as far as getting sponsors, 764 00:37:57,880 --> 00:38:02,320 being in the media in that way, you put skiing on the map. 765 00:38:02,360 --> 00:38:06,400 You are the reason why I did all the things that I did. 766 00:38:06,440 --> 00:38:07,280 Business too. 767 00:38:07,320 --> 00:38:09,320 You transcended skiing. 768 00:38:09,360 --> 00:38:12,079 - I remember being really proud to be a Nike athlete. 769 00:38:12,119 --> 00:38:15,440 I was their first winter athlete, period. 770 00:38:15,480 --> 00:38:18,880 The wind howls because it knows it has to race me. 771 00:38:18,920 --> 00:38:21,719 I have my own shoe, which I still have some. 772 00:38:21,760 --> 00:38:25,480 - I remember being like, Holy (bleep) 773 00:38:26,320 --> 00:38:28,840 A ski racer has a freaking shoe. 774 00:38:29,519 --> 00:38:32,760 That for me was like, this is what's possible. 775 00:38:32,800 --> 00:38:34,119 - Yeah. 776 00:38:34,159 --> 00:38:36,599 - Like you raised the glass ceiling by a thousand. 777 00:38:38,519 --> 00:38:41,519 - Do we out our GS skis in the cargo again? 778 00:38:41,559 --> 00:38:43,480 - GS skis in the cargo. 779 00:38:46,480 --> 00:38:49,400 - My mom and dad didn't come watch me race a lot, 780 00:38:49,440 --> 00:38:50,599 so when they did 781 00:38:50,639 --> 00:38:52,480 come to watch me race, it was really special. 782 00:38:52,519 --> 00:38:54,639 And I remember my mom coming over to Europe. 783 00:38:55,400 --> 00:38:57,480 The chamois hang out up there on the rocks. 784 00:38:57,519 --> 00:39:00,400 - Yeah. - In the sun, in the morning. 785 00:39:00,440 --> 00:39:02,000 - There is a big portion of her 786 00:39:02,039 --> 00:39:06,800 life that she grew up on the road away from mom. 787 00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:10,239 She went from a girl to a woman on her own in a hotel room. 788 00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:16,679 So the moments that they had to come together, they cherished. 789 00:39:16,719 --> 00:39:18,639 - Good morning. - Morning. 790 00:39:19,119 --> 00:39:23,039 - That's a ski. - I'm a beginner. 791 00:39:23,079 --> 00:39:24,719 (laughter) 792 00:39:26,119 --> 00:39:27,880 * Little darling * 793 00:39:27,920 --> 00:39:31,000 * It's been a long cold * 794 00:39:31,039 --> 00:39:33,519 * lonely winter * 795 00:39:33,559 --> 00:39:35,039 * Little darling * 796 00:39:35,360 --> 00:39:40,840 * It seems like years since it's been clear * 797 00:39:40,880 --> 00:39:42,199 * Ohhh * 798 00:39:43,079 --> 00:39:45,360 * Here come the sun * 799 00:39:48,639 --> 00:39:50,559 - This is so gorgeous 800 00:39:51,679 --> 00:39:54,039 and dramatic. 801 00:39:55,719 --> 00:39:57,360 - Rocks! Big rocks. 802 00:39:57,960 --> 00:39:59,119 - It's nice having your mom here. 803 00:39:59,159 --> 00:40:00,280 Is that an inspiration? 804 00:40:00,320 --> 00:40:01,719 - Oh, yeah, totally. She hasn't ever been 805 00:40:01,760 --> 00:40:05,239 to a European race before, so it's fun for me to know 806 00:40:05,280 --> 00:40:07,840 that she's getting to see it over here. 807 00:40:07,880 --> 00:40:09,599 She's getting to see 808 00:40:09,639 --> 00:40:13,760 the whole European scene and how big of a deal it is here. 809 00:40:15,159 --> 00:40:16,440 - That's great. 810 00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:17,880 - Plus, it's nice for her to meet 811 00:40:17,920 --> 00:40:19,840 all the people here that I know and that I talk about all 812 00:40:19,880 --> 00:40:23,840 the time that are all my friends and the people in my life 813 00:40:23,880 --> 00:40:25,639 for eight months out of the year. 814 00:40:26,639 --> 00:40:29,639 (calm music) 815 00:40:32,639 --> 00:40:34,440 - We've conquered the Castle, 816 00:40:34,480 --> 00:40:37,960 we kicked the Austrians and the Germans and the Italians off. 817 00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:39,440 They are angry. 818 00:40:39,480 --> 00:40:41,320 What we got to do now is we got 819 00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:45,239 to come up with a plan to stay at the top. 820 00:40:45,280 --> 00:40:47,280 - You just have to stand on it where everybody said to you, 821 00:40:47,320 --> 00:40:50,239 It's not like you're going to get thrown all around. 822 00:40:50,280 --> 00:40:53,559 The ice patches are not that bad. 823 00:40:56,320 --> 00:40:59,360 - Defending the spot is tough. 824 00:41:00,800 --> 00:41:04,599 The visualizing of where we want to go is very important. 825 00:41:04,639 --> 00:41:06,559 The dream to be there. 826 00:41:08,920 --> 00:41:10,880 I always had the feeling that Picabo 827 00:41:10,920 --> 00:41:13,679 very nicely reacted to images like this. 828 00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:19,360 (calm music) 829 00:41:26,840 --> 00:41:28,519 [Announcer] Picabo Street 830 00:41:28,960 --> 00:41:32,079 came to Sierra Nevada with only one thing in her mind. 831 00:41:32,119 --> 00:41:35,880 The gold medal in her favorite discipline, the downhill. 832 00:41:36,480 --> 00:41:39,039 Over a second ahead of anybody else. 833 00:41:39,079 --> 00:41:42,519 And Street, who is a real gliding machine. 834 00:41:43,920 --> 00:41:47,360 Her own unique style slicing through the air. 835 00:41:48,880 --> 00:41:52,280 (announcer speaking in foreign language) 836 00:41:55,199 --> 00:41:57,760 (yelling indistinctly) 837 00:42:08,400 --> 00:42:11,199 (cheering) 838 00:42:12,880 --> 00:42:16,039 [Announcer] Picabo Street had a massive advantage. 839 00:42:16,079 --> 00:42:18,719 Point 65 on a second. 840 00:42:22,800 --> 00:42:25,360 (Picabo screaming) 841 00:42:31,159 --> 00:42:34,119 - I'm the guy that, I over amp, just like that. 842 00:42:34,159 --> 00:42:36,119 So I can take her too far. 843 00:42:36,159 --> 00:42:38,880 Where Baba can mellow her out. 844 00:42:38,920 --> 00:42:40,679 - Did you hear dad yelling when you got to the finish? 845 00:42:40,719 --> 00:42:42,320 - Yeah, I did. He was the first person I heard. 846 00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:43,960 I turn around and he's going, yeah. 847 00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:46,000 I'm like, Hi, dad. 848 00:42:46,039 --> 00:42:47,119 - What were you thinking about 849 00:42:47,159 --> 00:42:49,760 when you were going off the jump? 850 00:42:49,800 --> 00:42:51,159 - Well, I'll tell you what. 851 00:42:51,199 --> 00:42:52,840 Looking at the ground way down there. 852 00:42:52,880 --> 00:42:54,320 I went, oh, my God. 853 00:42:54,360 --> 00:42:57,000 I caught so much air. Holy. 854 00:42:57,039 --> 00:42:58,440 And then I was like, okay, get back in the course. 855 00:42:58,480 --> 00:43:00,599 Get back in the course. - I love it. 856 00:43:00,639 --> 00:43:02,039 I don't get to see a race a lot, 857 00:43:02,079 --> 00:43:05,559 but on TV and you can smell it and hear it here. 858 00:43:05,599 --> 00:43:07,639 Like, car racing stuff. 859 00:43:07,679 --> 00:43:10,400 (whistling) 860 00:43:12,159 --> 00:43:14,639 (indistinct announcer) 861 00:43:16,559 --> 00:43:18,239 - To win. What was it? 862 00:43:18,280 --> 00:43:19,920 Two overall titles? 863 00:43:19,960 --> 00:43:21,039 Back to back. 864 00:43:21,079 --> 00:43:22,760 That is... 865 00:43:22,960 --> 00:43:24,320 That's big time. 866 00:43:24,360 --> 00:43:27,159 * Picabo knows what to do * 867 00:43:27,199 --> 00:43:29,000 * She's a downhill pilot * 868 00:43:29,039 --> 00:43:30,920 * And a snow girl runner * 869 00:43:30,960 --> 00:43:33,400 * Picabo gonna get you * 870 00:43:33,719 --> 00:43:35,840 - I remember working with some 871 00:43:35,880 --> 00:43:41,159 graphics people at Nike on a commercial called Sister Slope. 872 00:43:41,199 --> 00:43:45,639 And she was this, like, cartoon animated character of me. 873 00:43:45,679 --> 00:43:46,960 Oh, she was so rad. 874 00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:50,840 Long hair, great long legs, purple downhill suit. 875 00:43:50,880 --> 00:43:53,360 * * 876 00:43:56,360 --> 00:43:57,679 They were supposed to release it 877 00:43:57,719 --> 00:44:00,480 for that next season, but I blew my knee out. 878 00:44:01,440 --> 00:44:02,800 [News Broadcaster] Picabo tore ligaments 879 00:44:02,840 --> 00:44:05,280 and cartilage in her left knee when she crashed during 880 00:44:05,320 --> 00:44:07,400 a practice run in Vail, Colorado. 881 00:44:07,440 --> 00:44:11,039 Street is not expected to ski again for at least six months. 882 00:44:11,079 --> 00:44:12,559 [Picabo] I had tasted that success. 883 00:44:12,599 --> 00:44:14,719 I had won those races. I had won the title. 884 00:44:14,760 --> 00:44:17,519 And it was like, dangle dangle. - The downhill title. 885 00:44:17,559 --> 00:44:19,320 The World Championships. - Exactly. 886 00:44:19,360 --> 00:44:21,679 And so here's... - The Olympics. 887 00:44:21,719 --> 00:44:23,519 - Here's another year of smoking everybody. 888 00:44:23,559 --> 00:44:26,280 But nope. Instead, we're going to sideline you for a second. 889 00:44:26,320 --> 00:44:28,199 [News Broadcaster] So like many skiers before her, 890 00:44:28,239 --> 00:44:30,519 Picabo was wheeled into the operating room of 891 00:44:30,559 --> 00:44:31,920 Dr. Richard Steadman. 892 00:44:31,960 --> 00:44:34,079 One of the best knee surgeons in the world. 893 00:44:35,159 --> 00:44:36,800 But unlike other skiers, 894 00:44:36,840 --> 00:44:40,960 Picabo insisted she'd be awake for the entire operation. 895 00:44:44,239 --> 00:44:46,079 - What were you doing with that? 896 00:44:46,840 --> 00:44:49,480 (indistinct) 897 00:44:50,079 --> 00:44:51,079 - Okay. 898 00:44:52,440 --> 00:44:53,800 I talked to him a lot during. I was asking him a lot 899 00:44:53,840 --> 00:44:57,519 of questions, and it was very interesting and it seemed 900 00:44:58,559 --> 00:45:02,039 very difficult. And he's very good at it. 901 00:45:04,119 --> 00:45:06,119 - Who's driving that thing? 902 00:45:06,159 --> 00:45:08,239 - It's not me! (laughter) 903 00:45:08,719 --> 00:45:10,440 Yee-haw! 904 00:45:10,920 --> 00:45:13,559 Fixed up. Ready to go. 905 00:45:13,599 --> 00:45:14,840 - I'm Jake Shores. 906 00:45:14,880 --> 00:45:17,320 I am a chiropractor that's trained in neurology. 907 00:45:18,079 --> 00:45:22,039 So she first injured her left ACL in '89, 908 00:45:23,039 --> 00:45:25,679 and then she did it again in 1996. 909 00:45:26,679 --> 00:45:28,920 The fact that she did the same thing twice 910 00:45:28,960 --> 00:45:30,920 makes the surgery more difficult, 911 00:45:30,960 --> 00:45:32,480 the recovery more difficult. 912 00:45:32,519 --> 00:45:34,039 And then most of the time you're gonna have 913 00:45:34,079 --> 00:45:35,480 a greater decrease in function 914 00:45:35,519 --> 00:45:37,639 because of the compromise of the joint. 915 00:45:38,880 --> 00:45:40,639 - She tore the medial collateral ligament, 916 00:45:40,679 --> 00:45:43,360 which keeps the knee from going this way. 917 00:45:43,400 --> 00:45:46,960 She tore a back corner ligament in this area, 918 00:45:47,000 --> 00:45:49,440 which protects in this direction. 919 00:45:50,239 --> 00:45:52,360 She stressed this ligament 920 00:45:53,400 --> 00:45:57,119 and then she also bruised the bone 921 00:45:57,159 --> 00:45:58,800 in the back of the joint. 922 00:45:58,840 --> 00:46:02,119 And then actually had a small compression fracture 923 00:46:02,159 --> 00:46:06,079 of the bone in this area when the knee went like that. 924 00:46:06,920 --> 00:46:10,119 So it was an extensive injury. 925 00:46:11,119 --> 00:46:12,559 - That's why you needed a little more room 926 00:46:12,599 --> 00:46:14,760 in that canal was to get that piece of bone through there. 927 00:46:14,800 --> 00:46:16,960 - To get it through just right. - Before you screwed it on. 928 00:46:17,840 --> 00:46:19,159 Little fat little screws. 929 00:46:19,199 --> 00:46:22,719 - Five, four, three, two, one. 930 00:46:22,760 --> 00:46:24,960 Relax. Good. 931 00:46:25,000 --> 00:46:26,679 (Picabo exhaling shakily) 932 00:46:26,719 --> 00:46:27,719 - [Doctor] What's that? 933 00:46:27,760 --> 00:46:28,760 - [Picabo] I'm trying really hard. 934 00:46:28,800 --> 00:46:30,119 - [Doctor] I know you are. 935 00:46:32,039 --> 00:46:33,159 - From my perspective, 936 00:46:33,199 --> 00:46:34,400 it doesn't seem like it changed anything, 937 00:46:34,440 --> 00:46:36,920 but you didn't question what you were doing 938 00:46:36,960 --> 00:46:38,320 or where you were going, 939 00:46:38,360 --> 00:46:41,199 or if you were gonna make the Olympics from that point? 940 00:46:41,239 --> 00:46:42,639 - No, there wasn't a question at all. 941 00:46:42,679 --> 00:46:43,559 It was like, how, 942 00:46:44,599 --> 00:46:46,079 pardon my French, but how (bleep) long 943 00:46:46,119 --> 00:46:48,559 is this break gonna take 'cause I didn't order this breakup. 944 00:46:48,599 --> 00:46:51,280 (wind howling) 945 00:46:57,360 --> 00:46:59,280 - Back where we belong, huh? 946 00:47:00,280 --> 00:47:02,000 - [Reporter] So Peek, how's the road 947 00:47:02,039 --> 00:47:03,360 from recovery been for you? 948 00:47:03,400 --> 00:47:04,880 - It's been great, actually. 949 00:47:04,920 --> 00:47:08,280 What it has done is let the love of skiing resurface for me 950 00:47:08,320 --> 00:47:09,440 and that's what I'm feeling right now. 951 00:47:09,480 --> 00:47:12,159 I think I was so excited actually, 952 00:47:12,199 --> 00:47:15,400 when I got to the top last time that I literally puked. 953 00:47:16,320 --> 00:47:18,559 The skiing feels absolutely awesome. 954 00:47:18,599 --> 00:47:20,119 Wind in my face, just, 955 00:47:21,360 --> 00:47:22,199 just right. 956 00:47:23,559 --> 00:47:26,239 The knee is perfect. 957 00:47:26,280 --> 00:47:28,239 Working just like it's supposed to. 958 00:47:28,280 --> 00:47:30,000 It's just a little bit weak, obviously, 959 00:47:30,039 --> 00:47:32,679 because it's just needs some more time. 960 00:47:32,719 --> 00:47:36,119 (anticipatory music) 961 00:47:36,159 --> 00:47:37,880 I mean, it was great to be back on snow and all, 962 00:47:37,920 --> 00:47:40,119 but definitely wasn't ready. 963 00:47:40,159 --> 00:47:42,400 - [Newscaster] Street has had several setbacks. 964 00:47:42,440 --> 00:47:44,920 Picabo is still not ready to join her teammates 965 00:47:44,960 --> 00:47:47,559 and is getting away from the media's glare. 966 00:47:47,599 --> 00:47:49,920 Last week, she went off to a secret location 967 00:47:49,960 --> 00:47:52,119 for more training and more rehab. 968 00:47:53,360 --> 00:47:57,559 - The most intense training that I had had going in 969 00:47:57,599 --> 00:47:58,719 was in super G. 970 00:47:58,760 --> 00:48:00,400 We were trying to emulate downhill 971 00:48:00,440 --> 00:48:02,039 and we were running real fast super G 972 00:48:02,079 --> 00:48:05,119 for two weeks straight in Colorado. 973 00:48:05,159 --> 00:48:06,880 - [Newscaster] Most observers say Picabo 974 00:48:06,920 --> 00:48:08,440 is simply running out of time 975 00:48:08,480 --> 00:48:10,559 to be a serious threat in Nagano. 976 00:48:11,559 --> 00:48:14,400 - Sweden was the last race before the Olympics. 977 00:48:15,960 --> 00:48:18,000 The new-shaped ski was what everybody was on, 978 00:48:18,039 --> 00:48:20,360 but I couldn't get them figured. 979 00:48:21,559 --> 00:48:23,400 In downhill, especially the speed events 980 00:48:23,440 --> 00:48:25,880 there has been a concern about being able 981 00:48:25,920 --> 00:48:28,000 to limit the speed of the athletes 982 00:48:28,039 --> 00:48:30,280 because our athletes today are so much stronger, 983 00:48:30,320 --> 00:48:33,079 they're better trained, in the equipment is a lot better. 984 00:48:33,119 --> 00:48:35,760 There is a concern about building up too much speed. 985 00:48:35,800 --> 00:48:38,159 (announcer speaking indistinctly) 986 00:49:00,079 --> 00:49:02,039 - With the opening of the Winter Olympics in Nagano 987 00:49:02,079 --> 00:49:03,679 now less than a week away, 988 00:49:03,719 --> 00:49:06,559 America's Picabo Street suffered a mild concussion 989 00:49:06,599 --> 00:49:10,000 and some cuts and bruises, but no serious injury 990 00:49:10,039 --> 00:49:12,280 when she lost a ski and fell yesterday 991 00:49:12,320 --> 00:49:14,360 during a downhill run in Sweden. 992 00:49:15,639 --> 00:49:18,480 - Usually the sooner she calls after we know 993 00:49:18,519 --> 00:49:20,880 that the race she's run, 994 00:49:20,920 --> 00:49:23,760 the better chances are that she's won, 995 00:49:23,800 --> 00:49:25,679 and, boy, Dee and I were 996 00:49:25,719 --> 00:49:28,079 fighting over each other to the phone to, "Hello?" 997 00:49:28,119 --> 00:49:31,280 And it's like, (breathing heavily) "I'm all right." 998 00:49:31,320 --> 00:49:33,360 - Ah, I broke juniors. 999 00:49:34,599 --> 00:49:37,119 - "I broke my skis, dad. I broke my skis." 1000 00:49:37,159 --> 00:49:38,519 And I'm going, "Then you're in one piece?" 1001 00:49:38,559 --> 00:49:41,000 She's going, "Yeah, I've got a little bit of dizziness 1002 00:49:41,039 --> 00:49:43,400 and my eye's quivering and my neck is sore." 1003 00:49:43,440 --> 00:49:45,960 And I'm going "Well, hang in there, 1004 00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:47,760 we'll get you home and patch you up 1005 00:49:47,800 --> 00:49:49,920 and we'll get to Nagano." 1006 00:49:49,960 --> 00:49:53,280 (stately brass music) 1007 00:49:55,400 --> 00:49:56,719 - [Announcer] And the Olympic torch 1008 00:49:56,760 --> 00:49:58,199 has been winding through Japan, 1009 00:49:58,239 --> 00:50:00,039 visiting every part of the country 1010 00:50:00,079 --> 00:50:01,960 on its way to the Olympic stadium. 1011 00:50:02,679 --> 00:50:06,719 In the end, it'll have touched over 6,600 hands 1012 00:50:08,760 --> 00:50:10,559 on the way to the Olympic cauldron. 1013 00:50:12,920 --> 00:50:15,719 50,000 people are expected to gather here 1014 00:50:15,760 --> 00:50:17,360 for this opening ceremony. 1015 00:50:18,320 --> 00:50:21,000 Ancient religious rituals mixed with modern technology 1016 00:50:21,039 --> 00:50:23,679 blending together in a songful prayer 1017 00:50:23,719 --> 00:50:25,639 of hope for the 21st century. 1018 00:50:27,360 --> 00:50:28,719 The United States is next. 1019 00:50:28,760 --> 00:50:31,920 (crowd cheering) (bells jangling) 1020 00:50:31,960 --> 00:50:34,559 Led by flag bearer Eric Flaim. 1021 00:50:37,039 --> 00:50:39,920 - Did you know, the team voted me to carry the flag 1022 00:50:39,960 --> 00:50:41,559 in the opening ceremonies? 1023 00:50:42,440 --> 00:50:44,280 - But you didn't? - I won that popularity. 1024 00:50:44,320 --> 00:50:45,519 That was like such- - That's huge. 1025 00:50:45,559 --> 00:50:48,000 - A big moment in my life as an Olympic athlete. 1026 00:50:48,039 --> 00:50:49,119 I was like, (gasping) 1027 00:50:49,159 --> 00:50:50,519 but I said, "I can't do it. 1028 00:50:50,559 --> 00:50:54,960 I'm hurt. And I need rehab and I can't go early." 1029 00:50:55,000 --> 00:50:59,360 (slowly building triumphant music) 1030 00:51:09,159 --> 00:51:12,480 (jet engines roaring) 1031 00:51:13,559 --> 00:51:16,440 - Was she 100% at the Games in Nagano? 1032 00:51:16,480 --> 00:51:20,320 That you normally have with an athlete? No. 1033 00:51:20,360 --> 00:51:22,559 - [Announcer] They're the best in super G this season. 1034 00:51:22,599 --> 00:51:24,480 Seizinger of Germany, 1035 00:51:24,519 --> 00:51:25,320 Ertl of Germany, 1036 00:51:25,360 --> 00:51:26,679 along with the Austrian Geotschl 1037 00:51:26,719 --> 00:51:29,440 and Isolde Kostner, always dangerous from Italy. 1038 00:51:29,480 --> 00:51:31,199 Picabo Street way down on the pack 1039 00:51:31,239 --> 00:51:32,559 where she skied only four 1040 00:51:32,599 --> 00:51:34,639 of the six super G's so far this year. 1041 00:51:34,679 --> 00:51:36,920 (skiers chattering) (radio squawking indistinctly) 1042 00:51:36,960 --> 00:51:39,679 - We did something really outside the box that day 1043 00:51:39,719 --> 00:51:43,360 where after we inspected the course in the morning, 1044 00:51:43,400 --> 00:51:46,400 I saw it was a very straightforward course set 1045 00:51:46,440 --> 00:51:49,119 that they normally don't have in super G 1046 00:51:49,159 --> 00:51:51,440 because the core setter was a Russian 1047 00:51:51,480 --> 00:51:54,360 and one of his athletes had a huge chance to win a medal. 1048 00:51:54,400 --> 00:51:58,079 So he set a course that was basically straight. 1049 00:51:59,320 --> 00:52:00,719 I spoke with my coach and said, 1050 00:52:00,760 --> 00:52:02,519 "Pull out the downhill skis 1051 00:52:02,559 --> 00:52:06,320 and give it a shot because they were no turns." 1052 00:52:06,360 --> 00:52:10,000 (radio chatter in foreign language) 1053 00:52:10,039 --> 00:52:11,320 - [Coach] Okay. 1054 00:52:11,360 --> 00:52:13,079 - Gather all my stuff, out the door to the ski room. 1055 00:52:13,119 --> 00:52:14,480 I get to the ski room, 1056 00:52:14,519 --> 00:52:16,920 and my downhill training skis are outside the ski room. 1057 00:52:16,960 --> 00:52:19,159 And I'm like, "Wait a minute." 1058 00:52:19,199 --> 00:52:21,360 - And then I spoke with Picabo and I said to Peek, 1059 00:52:21,400 --> 00:52:23,559 "We're gonna let you go on the downhills skis today. 1060 00:52:23,599 --> 00:52:24,559 What do you think?" 1061 00:52:24,599 --> 00:52:25,840 And she said, "Whatever you say." 1062 00:52:27,320 --> 00:52:29,320 And when you have trust with an athlete, it's really cool. 1063 00:52:29,360 --> 00:52:31,559 [Announcer] It will be a smooth track for her. 1064 00:52:31,599 --> 00:52:34,760 A possibility it'll get faster by the time Seizinger runs 1065 00:52:34,800 --> 00:52:35,880 because it's sunny out there 1066 00:52:35,920 --> 00:52:37,440 and a glaze might form on the track. 1067 00:52:37,480 --> 00:52:38,519 (horn blaring) - Go, go, go, go, go! 1068 00:52:40,519 --> 00:52:42,519 - [Announcer] And America's Picabo Street. 1069 00:52:42,559 --> 00:52:45,440 She's never won in super giant slalom before, 1070 00:52:45,480 --> 00:52:48,480 but she said at a press release prior today's competition 1071 00:52:48,519 --> 00:52:51,480 she's really desperate to do well in this event 1072 00:52:51,519 --> 00:52:54,280 as part of her preparation to take the downhill title 1073 00:52:54,320 --> 00:52:56,320 of the Olympic Games away 1074 00:52:56,360 --> 00:53:00,719 from Germany's Katja Seizinger, very much her archrival. 1075 00:53:02,599 --> 00:53:04,000 - She's had only seven races this year, 1076 00:53:04,039 --> 00:53:07,079 coming back from the knee injury of December '96 1077 00:53:07,119 --> 00:53:09,840 and a crash at Are, Sweden last week. 1078 00:53:09,880 --> 00:53:11,119 - This is where she excels. 1079 00:53:11,159 --> 00:53:13,119 She's got a natural ability to work the terrain 1080 00:53:13,159 --> 00:53:15,760 beneath her skis while in a tucked position. 1081 00:53:15,800 --> 00:53:17,119 She just feels the snow. 1082 00:53:17,159 --> 00:53:21,119 (muffled crowd exclaiming) 1083 00:53:21,159 --> 00:53:22,239 There's that first jump, goes back, 1084 00:53:22,280 --> 00:53:24,639 and she gets through it a little bit wide. 1085 00:53:24,679 --> 00:53:26,239 That's gonna cost her, Tim. 1086 00:53:26,280 --> 00:53:28,920 [Announcer] She's getting bounced around on the hairpin. 1087 00:53:28,960 --> 00:53:30,320 Sun Terrace hairpin. 1088 00:53:30,360 --> 00:53:32,119 Now a series of tight technical turns. 1089 00:53:32,159 --> 00:53:34,840 Getting good pressure against the turning ski, 1090 00:53:34,880 --> 00:53:36,159 nice and high and early. 1091 00:53:36,199 --> 00:53:38,719 This is good skiing from Street. 1092 00:53:38,760 --> 00:53:40,719 - Picabo Street, in early trouble, 1093 00:53:40,760 --> 00:53:42,199 now flying over this top. 1094 00:53:42,239 --> 00:53:44,119 - Using her downhill skills 1095 00:53:44,159 --> 00:53:45,719 to good effect off these rollers. 1096 00:53:45,760 --> 00:53:48,119 These jumps throwing the skier into the air. 1097 00:53:48,880 --> 00:53:52,320 Street, never better than eleventh on the World Cup tour, 1098 00:53:52,360 --> 00:53:54,960 but the Olympic Games is a special temperament. 1099 00:53:55,000 --> 00:53:56,519 A special psych is required. 1100 00:53:56,559 --> 00:53:58,320 And look at the margin. 1101 00:53:58,360 --> 00:54:02,039 1.14 seconds faster than Ingeborg Helen Marken 1102 00:54:02,079 --> 00:54:03,960 Picabo Street has had a flyer. 1103 00:54:05,320 --> 00:54:07,960 - When she popped that run, nobody ever said, 1104 00:54:08,000 --> 00:54:09,639 "We've got the gold now." 1105 00:54:09,679 --> 00:54:12,400 It's hold your breath until the last girl crosses the line 1106 00:54:12,440 --> 00:54:13,880 and then for sure. 1107 00:54:13,920 --> 00:54:15,840 - This is Michaela Dorfmeister, 1108 00:54:15,880 --> 00:54:18,119 a 25-year-old from Neuchatel, Austria. 1109 00:54:18,880 --> 00:54:22,760 Here she is, racing for gold in the Olympics super G. 1110 00:54:23,800 --> 00:54:25,000 - A beautiful flight. 1111 00:54:25,039 --> 00:54:26,760 She stays in her tuck all the way through. 1112 00:54:26,800 --> 00:54:30,320 No, this woman is not your average Austrian hausfrau. 1113 00:54:30,360 --> 00:54:31,679 - There is the time to beat Dorfmeister 1114 00:54:31,719 --> 00:54:33,679 over the final jump. 1115 00:54:33,719 --> 00:54:35,199 One one hundredth behind. 1116 00:54:35,239 --> 00:54:38,719 Dorfmeister, she's in the second place 1117 00:54:38,760 --> 00:54:40,800 and she nearly got into first. 1118 00:54:41,679 --> 00:54:44,079 But it will be gold for Picabo Street. 1119 00:54:44,119 --> 00:54:46,000 [Woman] Yeah, Peeky! 1120 00:54:46,039 --> 00:54:49,000 - Her first ever victory in a super G race 1121 00:54:49,039 --> 00:54:52,440 for Picabo Street, and it is Olympic gold. 1122 00:54:52,480 --> 00:54:56,519 - Mom? Hi, mom. 1123 00:54:56,559 --> 00:54:57,519 Mom, I won. 1124 00:54:58,760 --> 00:55:02,079 (laughs) Thank you. 1125 00:55:02,119 --> 00:55:03,719 Thanks, Mom. I miss you. 1126 00:55:03,760 --> 00:55:04,960 I wish you were here. 1127 00:55:10,559 --> 00:55:14,320 (laughs) It's okay, I'm gonna win more than one, mom. 1128 00:55:14,360 --> 00:55:18,119 I'm gonna bring them both to Maui, okay? (laughs) 1129 00:55:18,159 --> 00:55:20,440 (man speaking in foreign language) 1130 00:55:20,480 --> 00:55:23,400 I love you too. Wanna talk to dad? 1131 00:55:28,760 --> 00:55:31,239 - That snow will kick your ass. 1132 00:55:31,280 --> 00:55:34,079 - That will kick us both, dad. 1133 00:55:34,119 --> 00:55:35,639 Great, did you talk to mom? 1134 00:55:35,679 --> 00:55:37,079 - Yeah, mom knows. 1135 00:55:37,119 --> 00:55:39,960 (gentle music) 1136 00:55:41,280 --> 00:55:43,199 - What a day. - What a day. 1137 00:55:43,239 --> 00:55:44,599 It's a dream come true for me 1138 00:55:44,639 --> 00:55:47,599 It's something that everyone dreams of all their life 1139 00:55:47,639 --> 00:55:48,800 when they're an athlete. 1140 00:55:48,840 --> 00:55:51,320 And for me, it's been such a difficult season. 1141 00:55:51,360 --> 00:55:53,519 I've had so many ups and so many downs. 1142 00:55:55,360 --> 00:55:56,559 It's been really long, you know? 1143 00:55:56,599 --> 00:55:58,360 It's been a long time that I've been waiting 1144 00:55:58,400 --> 00:55:59,840 to get back into form to be able 1145 00:55:59,880 --> 00:56:01,480 to attack the course all out. 1146 00:56:01,519 --> 00:56:02,840 - If it was me, I would've cried now. 1147 00:56:02,880 --> 00:56:05,320 - I've already cried and stopped and cried and stopped. 1148 00:56:05,360 --> 00:56:07,559 So it's been very emotional. 1149 00:56:07,599 --> 00:56:11,440 [Announcer] And in second place, Michaela Dorfmeister. 1150 00:56:18,760 --> 00:56:22,559 (gentle inspirational music) 1151 00:56:25,320 --> 00:56:26,639 [Announcer] Medals will be presented 1152 00:56:26,679 --> 00:56:30,519 by Mr. John Claude Killy IOC member in France, 1153 00:56:30,559 --> 00:56:31,920 downhill, giant slalom 1154 00:56:31,960 --> 00:56:36,519 and special slalom gold medalist in Grenoble in 1968. 1155 00:56:36,559 --> 00:56:40,679 Olympic champion and gold medalist Picabo Street, 1156 00:56:40,719 --> 00:56:42,719 United States of America. 1157 00:56:42,760 --> 00:56:45,559 (crowd cheering) 1158 00:56:52,760 --> 00:56:55,719 - When John Clark puts the metal around my neck, 1159 00:56:55,760 --> 00:56:57,000 he knew he had crushed me, right. 1160 00:56:57,039 --> 00:56:58,239 He knew it. And he said, 1161 00:56:58,280 --> 00:56:59,519 your father told me we're gonna do 1162 00:56:59,559 --> 00:57:01,119 this when you were a kid. 1163 00:57:01,159 --> 00:57:03,079 I'm so proud of you and I'm so glad to be here 1164 00:57:03,119 --> 00:57:05,960 so honored, so honored to be here, to give you this. 1165 00:57:06,920 --> 00:57:08,840 (crowd cheering) 1166 00:57:08,880 --> 00:57:12,679 (gentle inspirational music) 1167 00:57:17,800 --> 00:57:22,320 ("The Star-Spangled Banner" playing) 1168 00:57:24,159 --> 00:57:25,400 So I started singing there, 1169 00:57:25,440 --> 00:57:26,960 I'm dumb and I'm crying and singing in the hall. 1170 00:57:27,000 --> 00:57:28,960 It's just like the culmination of 1171 00:57:29,000 --> 00:57:30,559 everything coming together 1172 00:57:30,599 --> 00:57:31,840 in one shot it's magical, 1173 00:57:31,880 --> 00:57:33,400 you feel like a rock star, 1174 00:57:33,440 --> 00:57:35,320 you're crying because the joy in your belly 1175 00:57:35,360 --> 00:57:37,679 is so beyond anything you thought it would ever 1176 00:57:37,719 --> 00:57:38,920 be and you thought it would be 1177 00:57:38,960 --> 00:57:39,920 the most wonderful thing ever, 1178 00:57:39,960 --> 00:57:42,480 and it's better than that. 1179 00:57:42,519 --> 00:57:45,880 (crowd applauding) 1180 00:57:45,920 --> 00:57:49,039 [Announcer] Congratulations to these Olympic champions. 1181 00:57:49,079 --> 00:57:52,519 (gentle spirited music) 1182 00:58:09,159 --> 00:58:10,760 [Picabo] The night after I won my gold medal 1183 00:58:10,800 --> 00:58:12,480 that was a super fun night 1184 00:58:12,519 --> 00:58:14,679 and the next day was like a twilight zone. 1185 00:58:16,679 --> 00:58:19,519 My dad had ended up MIA for a little while, 1186 00:58:19,559 --> 00:58:23,360 and so he kind of spun and did his usual deviation of, 1187 00:58:23,400 --> 00:58:25,119 "oh, let me just blow myself off 1188 00:58:25,159 --> 00:58:28,119 and not take care of myself." 1189 00:58:28,960 --> 00:58:29,880 - We went out and partying. 1190 00:58:29,920 --> 00:58:30,840 We got home and I'm going, 1191 00:58:30,880 --> 00:58:32,320 "God, you can't get food out. 1192 00:58:32,360 --> 00:58:34,039 I don't want to hear about it," whoa. 1193 00:58:34,079 --> 00:58:36,519 And then Baba pushed her button and (bleep) 1194 00:58:36,559 --> 00:58:38,679 (mumbling) 1195 00:58:38,719 --> 00:58:41,599 and he went up to cool it and went to bed. 1196 00:58:41,639 --> 00:58:43,119 [Picabo] I remember him coming back to the house 1197 00:58:43,159 --> 00:58:45,039 you know I said, "where were you?" 1198 00:58:45,079 --> 00:58:47,280 And he's like, "oh, just out for a walk." 1199 00:58:48,480 --> 00:58:52,920 He had run into Tim Layden, a sports illustrated writer. 1200 00:58:52,960 --> 00:58:55,320 Do I need to worry about that one? 1201 00:58:55,360 --> 00:58:56,239 Maybe. 1202 00:58:57,960 --> 00:59:00,559 Needless to say was pretty distracting. 1203 00:59:01,360 --> 00:59:03,000 Definitely, the closest we had come 1204 00:59:03,039 --> 00:59:05,000 to the elephant in the room being 1205 00:59:05,039 --> 00:59:07,360 seen and our secret coming out, 1206 00:59:08,159 --> 00:59:12,440 and I didn't have a lot of gusto after that for, 1207 00:59:12,480 --> 00:59:14,400 you know getting feisty on the hill. 1208 00:59:16,519 --> 00:59:18,039 - This is the first Olympic winter where 1209 00:59:18,079 --> 00:59:21,119 all of the Alpine skiing events have been rescheduled. 1210 00:59:21,159 --> 00:59:22,719 The erratic weather has stopped them from skiing 1211 00:59:22,760 --> 00:59:26,719 five out of the past eight days but today finally, 1212 00:59:26,760 --> 00:59:28,039 they're able to ski. 1213 00:59:28,079 --> 00:59:30,920 [Announcer] The ladies' downhill. 1214 00:59:30,960 --> 00:59:33,519 (crowd cheering) 1215 00:59:33,559 --> 00:59:34,719 (air horn blowing) 1216 00:59:34,760 --> 00:59:38,079 (air horn blowing) 1217 00:59:38,119 --> 00:59:41,079 (crowd cheering) 1218 00:59:42,719 --> 00:59:46,159 (announcers chattering) 1219 00:59:56,000 --> 00:59:59,519 (calm suspenseful music) 1220 01:00:12,079 --> 01:00:13,599 [Commentator] Feather soft touch on the snow. 1221 01:00:13,639 --> 01:00:16,039 - She is almost just too behind. 1222 01:00:17,559 --> 01:00:19,480 - And she too gets thrown a little bit wide, 1223 01:00:19,519 --> 01:00:21,960 but you can see there's just there's room to move on this 1224 01:00:22,000 --> 01:00:24,199 course. I don't think that a perfect line 1225 01:00:24,239 --> 01:00:25,599 is gonna be essential today. 1226 01:00:25,639 --> 01:00:28,239 You've gotta just let the skis run and attack the course 1227 01:00:28,280 --> 01:00:30,519 and Picabo sure did that. 1228 01:00:30,559 --> 01:00:33,000 - That is great split time on 2.05, 1229 01:00:33,039 --> 01:00:36,960 she is only 5.100, she's picked up a little here. 1230 01:00:47,079 --> 01:00:49,280 - We didn't walk away with two. 1231 01:00:49,320 --> 01:00:50,599 So it's a disappointment for me, 1232 01:00:50,639 --> 01:00:53,239 normally should be a disappointment for Picabo too. 1233 01:00:53,280 --> 01:00:55,000 It's a disappointment for the coaching staff 1234 01:00:55,039 --> 01:00:56,559 because we'd lost the focus. 1235 01:00:57,360 --> 01:00:58,559 [Interviewer] What does having a gold medal 1236 01:00:58,599 --> 01:01:00,039 in your hip pocket before 1237 01:01:00,079 --> 01:01:01,920 you do the downhill, do to your frame of mind in downhill? 1238 01:01:01,960 --> 01:01:04,320 - Well it's tough, it's really tough because I think there, 1239 01:01:04,360 --> 01:01:06,639 there probably would have been more hunger surfacing in me, 1240 01:01:06,679 --> 01:01:08,519 but I try and look at the big picture all the time and not 1241 01:01:08,559 --> 01:01:10,119 get too caught up in the little picture. 1242 01:01:10,159 --> 01:01:12,320 And the big picture is maybe I would have risked too much 1243 01:01:12,360 --> 01:01:13,800 and hurt myself again today. 1244 01:01:13,840 --> 01:01:16,000 If I had been that hungry and not had won that gold medal 1245 01:01:16,039 --> 01:01:17,360 already the super G's. 1246 01:01:18,119 --> 01:01:19,559 I lost my downhill ski on a couple of turns 1247 01:01:19,599 --> 01:01:22,280 and that scary, you know, I actually screamed. 1248 01:01:22,320 --> 01:01:23,320 I'm just glad to be standing down 1249 01:01:23,360 --> 01:01:24,519 here talking to you one piece. 1250 01:01:24,559 --> 01:01:25,719 I didn't want to hit the fence again today. 1251 01:01:25,760 --> 01:01:27,320 So I skied a bit tentative 1252 01:01:27,360 --> 01:01:28,679 and you just can't do that with this field. 1253 01:01:28,719 --> 01:01:29,559 They're too good. 1254 01:01:33,960 --> 01:01:35,800 It's amazing how our greatest moments can 1255 01:01:35,840 --> 01:01:39,920 like they can crush us, like that was a crushing one. 1256 01:01:39,960 --> 01:01:44,519 - The whole emotional power that Picabo had 1257 01:01:44,559 --> 01:01:47,320 was kind of empty after she won the gold medal 1258 01:01:47,360 --> 01:01:49,000 and we had to finish the season. 1259 01:01:49,039 --> 01:01:51,280 We had new skis, new equipment. 1260 01:01:51,320 --> 01:01:52,639 - I had blown off racing 1261 01:01:52,679 --> 01:01:54,679 on the shape skis before Nagano 1262 01:01:54,719 --> 01:01:55,840 'cause I wasn't familiar with 1263 01:01:55,880 --> 01:01:57,320 them and didn't like them. 1264 01:01:58,360 --> 01:02:00,280 So I went for it in the Crans. 1265 01:02:03,679 --> 01:02:06,639 - American Olympic skiing champion Picabo Street is 1266 01:02:06,679 --> 01:02:09,880 spending Friday the 13th in a hospital in Switzerland, 1267 01:02:09,920 --> 01:02:12,639 Street fell today in the last world cup 1268 01:02:12,679 --> 01:02:15,599 downhill race of the season and broke her left leg. 1269 01:02:15,639 --> 01:02:17,920 Her doctor said, it'll be many months now 1270 01:02:17,960 --> 01:02:19,599 before she skis again. 1271 01:02:22,920 --> 01:02:26,119 (Picabo wailing in pain) 1272 01:02:26,159 --> 01:02:27,400 - I couldn't feel my body. 1273 01:02:27,440 --> 01:02:29,360 I couldn't feel my legs and I was really scared 1274 01:02:29,400 --> 01:02:33,039 I was paralyzed, and I rolled over and everything came with 1275 01:02:33,079 --> 01:02:36,320 me and I was so happy that everything moved with me, 1276 01:02:36,360 --> 01:02:37,719 but then the pain set in. 1277 01:02:39,719 --> 01:02:42,480 It's crazy, it was the best and the worst year of my life, 1278 01:02:42,519 --> 01:02:44,840 I laid in the hospital and was just lost really 1279 01:02:44,880 --> 01:02:48,159 for several days going, "what is going on? 1280 01:02:48,199 --> 01:02:49,719 What is it just happened to me?" 1281 01:02:49,760 --> 01:02:52,440 And it's always kind of in this pattern in my life, 1282 01:02:52,480 --> 01:02:54,559 whenever anything really good happens. 1283 01:02:54,599 --> 01:02:56,519 I need to just start holding my breath because I know a 1284 01:02:56,559 --> 01:02:58,000 disaster is right around the corner 1285 01:02:58,039 --> 01:03:00,000 so that it can stay balanced. 1286 01:03:00,039 --> 01:03:02,639 - What was it like to go from the extreme of winning 1287 01:03:02,679 --> 01:03:07,559 the Olympics to being there with their leg broken in Crans? 1288 01:03:08,960 --> 01:03:11,960 (Picabo chuckles) 1289 01:03:13,239 --> 01:03:16,440 - It was a very, very dramatic transition 1290 01:03:17,760 --> 01:03:21,400 that produced depression and I closed everything up 1291 01:03:21,440 --> 01:03:23,960 and I just wanted to stay home. 1292 01:03:25,360 --> 01:03:30,360 I couldn't get up and go anywhere and I didn't want to, 1293 01:03:30,400 --> 01:03:32,960 you know, my legs couldn't carry me anywhere. 1294 01:03:33,800 --> 01:03:35,639 - She fractured her left femur, 1295 01:03:35,679 --> 01:03:38,480 which is the hardest bone in your body to break. 1296 01:03:38,519 --> 01:03:40,840 And this time she injured the lateral meniscus 1297 01:03:40,880 --> 01:03:41,800 of a right knee. 1298 01:03:42,920 --> 01:03:45,000 They went in and fixed it and surgically 1299 01:03:45,039 --> 01:03:46,320 adhered it with plates. 1300 01:03:46,360 --> 01:03:48,880 However you do that knowing that in a few months, 1301 01:03:48,920 --> 01:03:50,119 they're gonna go back in, 1302 01:03:50,159 --> 01:03:53,119 cut you back open to pull the plate out 1303 01:03:53,159 --> 01:03:56,079 and then you have to rehab all over again. 1304 01:03:56,119 --> 01:03:57,159 - I'd just catch myself crying. 1305 01:03:57,199 --> 01:03:59,920 and then it all pours in as to why? 1306 01:03:59,960 --> 01:04:02,079 And it's different things all the way 1307 01:04:02,119 --> 01:04:05,559 from those little things that I said before, 1308 01:04:05,599 --> 01:04:07,840 like "oh my, my legs are getting small 1309 01:04:07,880 --> 01:04:09,519 they're atrophying right underneath me" 1310 01:04:09,559 --> 01:04:14,719 to, "oh you know how am I gonna get out of this?" 1311 01:04:14,920 --> 01:04:17,119 To, "gosh do I even want to ski anymore?" 1312 01:04:17,159 --> 01:04:18,599 I mean, it's heavy this time. 1313 01:04:21,599 --> 01:04:24,079 [News Broadcaster] In the speed events, downhill 1314 01:04:24,119 --> 01:04:25,639 and super-G, Picabo Street is 1315 01:04:25,679 --> 01:04:29,360 the greatest North American male or female ever to race. 1316 01:04:29,400 --> 01:04:32,039 And she has paid a physical and emotional price. 1317 01:04:32,079 --> 01:04:35,679 Note that no other US skiers are in the top five. 1318 01:04:35,719 --> 01:04:37,199 A two time Olympic medalist, 1319 01:04:37,239 --> 01:04:40,480 two-time World Cup downhill champ, and World Champion. 1320 01:04:40,519 --> 01:04:42,920 Street has nothing left to prove. 1321 01:04:42,960 --> 01:04:45,519 (soft music) 1322 01:04:45,559 --> 01:04:47,960 - Does it hurt, physically hurt again when you watch it? 1323 01:04:48,000 --> 01:04:49,320 - It hurts my heart. 1324 01:04:49,360 --> 01:04:51,760 It hurts my stomach, my soul, you know, deep inside. 1325 01:04:51,800 --> 01:04:54,519 Like the part that drives me, it hurts that part. 1326 01:04:54,559 --> 01:04:56,719 And that has never been touched before. 1327 01:04:57,639 --> 01:05:00,159 (soft music) 1328 01:05:05,400 --> 01:05:07,360 - And that thing that got me out of it was 1329 01:05:07,400 --> 01:05:08,719 actually Mother's Day came. 1330 01:05:08,760 --> 01:05:11,599 And I hadn't been out of my room in quite some time. 1331 01:05:11,639 --> 01:05:14,239 And I thought, maybe I'll go wish my mom 1332 01:05:14,280 --> 01:05:16,519 a Happy Mother's Day in the kitchen today. 1333 01:05:17,320 --> 01:05:19,920 It's really far away, but I think I can make it. 1334 01:05:19,960 --> 01:05:21,400 And I had been interacting with my mom 1335 01:05:21,440 --> 01:05:24,400 'cause I needed her help to go to the freaking bathroom. 1336 01:05:24,440 --> 01:05:27,559 I'm an Olympic champion, I'm a World Champion. 1337 01:05:27,599 --> 01:05:29,320 I still need my mom. 1338 01:05:29,360 --> 01:05:30,920 (crowd cheering) 1339 01:05:30,960 --> 01:05:34,159 It was just one slow step at a time. 1340 01:05:34,199 --> 01:05:36,440 [Reporter] Nike had about 600 girls 1341 01:05:36,480 --> 01:05:37,760 on-campus today. 1342 01:05:37,800 --> 01:05:40,599 And many of them were there to get a peek at Picabo. 1343 01:05:40,639 --> 01:05:42,039 - Back at her first appearance 1344 01:05:42,079 --> 01:05:44,199 in Oregon today, since she broke her leg in Switzerland. 1345 01:05:44,239 --> 01:05:46,800 - I've missed you guys, how have you been? 1346 01:05:46,840 --> 01:05:47,639 Good? - Good! 1347 01:05:47,679 --> 01:05:48,480 - Woo! 1348 01:05:48,519 --> 01:05:50,400 - When she hurt herself in 98, 1349 01:05:50,440 --> 01:05:52,960 dad and I were absolutely, and mom, 1350 01:05:53,000 --> 01:05:57,360 adamant about, "Look, you need to rehab, 1351 01:05:57,400 --> 01:06:00,679 and you need to come back with the mindset 1352 01:06:00,719 --> 01:06:03,800 that you're gonna be a world-class athlete again. 1353 01:06:03,840 --> 01:06:05,599 That way, even if you're not, 1354 01:06:05,639 --> 01:06:08,000 you at least will be able to walk up and down stairs 1355 01:06:08,039 --> 01:06:09,519 for the rest of your life." 1356 01:06:09,559 --> 01:06:12,519 Because it was a very serious injury that she went through. 1357 01:06:12,559 --> 01:06:13,519 (sensor buzzing) 1358 01:06:13,559 --> 01:06:14,239 [Reporter] Making light of 1359 01:06:14,280 --> 01:06:15,800 her injuries in a Nike ad 1360 01:06:15,840 --> 01:06:18,159 also helped Picabo turn the corner. 1361 01:06:19,320 --> 01:06:20,840 [Picabo] When they first proposed that to me, 1362 01:06:20,880 --> 01:06:22,320 I was like, "No! 1363 01:06:22,360 --> 01:06:26,079 I can not believe that you guys wanna make fun of my legs. 1364 01:06:27,199 --> 01:06:28,960 I am insulted." 1365 01:06:29,000 --> 01:06:30,639 And then I kind of sat and thought about it, 1366 01:06:30,679 --> 01:06:33,079 and I kind of digested it a little bit. 1367 01:06:33,119 --> 01:06:34,159 And then I went, "You know what? 1368 01:06:34,199 --> 01:06:36,079 Maybe it would be exactly what I need." 1369 01:06:36,760 --> 01:06:38,440 (audience applauding) 1370 01:06:38,480 --> 01:06:41,639 - For the International Olympic Committee, 1371 01:06:41,679 --> 01:06:42,559 has decided 1372 01:06:44,039 --> 01:06:48,559 to award the organization of the 19th Olympic winter games 1373 01:06:48,599 --> 01:06:52,760 in 2002 to the city of Salt Lake City. 1374 01:06:52,800 --> 01:06:55,599 (crowd cheering) 1375 01:06:57,559 --> 01:07:00,400 - Towards the end of my career, I started to gauge, 1376 01:07:01,159 --> 01:07:02,760 like, I knew nothing was gonna top 1377 01:07:02,800 --> 01:07:04,000 the Olympics in Salt Lake. 1378 01:07:04,039 --> 01:07:05,559 Win, lose, or draw. 1379 01:07:05,599 --> 01:07:07,000 Like, come on! 1380 01:07:07,039 --> 01:07:09,280 The Olympics in front of American crowd. 1381 01:07:09,320 --> 01:07:10,440 Boo yah! 1382 01:07:10,480 --> 01:07:11,760 Like, it doesn't get better, I don't care. 1383 01:07:11,800 --> 01:07:14,559 - So many skiers, you know, we had so many injuries, 1384 01:07:14,599 --> 01:07:17,119 and they get injured and that's their last race. 1385 01:07:17,159 --> 01:07:20,760 It's nice to be able to end on your own terms. 1386 01:07:20,800 --> 01:07:22,880 [Reporter] Now, after 20 months 1387 01:07:22,920 --> 01:07:24,119 of grueling rehabilitation, 1388 01:07:24,159 --> 01:07:26,239 Picabo is back on her skies, 1389 01:07:26,280 --> 01:07:28,559 and considering another Olympic run. 1390 01:07:30,079 --> 01:07:32,159 - You gotta make Nationals. 1391 01:07:32,199 --> 01:07:33,440 Then you gotta make the Olympic team. 1392 01:07:33,480 --> 01:07:36,119 It isn't like, "Oh, well you won four years ago. 1393 01:07:36,159 --> 01:07:38,119 So we're automatically gonna put you on the team." 1394 01:07:38,159 --> 01:07:40,719 No, she had to, she had to go race in New Orleans 1395 01:07:40,760 --> 01:07:42,000 and Europe with tubs. 1396 01:07:43,440 --> 01:07:45,840 [Interviewer] You can't have fear when you're going down 1397 01:07:45,880 --> 01:07:49,360 that mountain at 80 miles an hour, not even an ounce. 1398 01:07:49,400 --> 01:07:51,800 - No, because it's the mountain is like a dog. 1399 01:07:51,840 --> 01:07:52,960 It's going to smell that fear. 1400 01:07:53,000 --> 01:07:54,000 And it's going to get ya. 1401 01:07:54,039 --> 01:07:55,039 It's going to bite you. 1402 01:07:55,079 --> 01:07:56,440 I'll be ready probably by November, 1403 01:07:56,480 --> 01:07:58,280 December to hit the fence again, I'm not planning on it, 1404 01:07:58,320 --> 01:07:59,599 but I've got to be ready for that. 1405 01:07:59,639 --> 01:08:00,719 If I want to get back. 1406 01:08:02,239 --> 01:08:05,079 - Throughout Peak's career, the injuries that she sustained, 1407 01:08:05,119 --> 01:08:07,400 left her in a position that as she is recovering 1408 01:08:07,440 --> 01:08:10,320 and training for the salt lake games in 2002, 1409 01:08:10,360 --> 01:08:13,960 she's doing it on the knees of someone who's probably in 1410 01:08:14,000 --> 01:08:16,279 their mid 60's to early 70's. 1411 01:08:17,520 --> 01:08:20,239 - And you have to be very careful two work through the 1412 01:08:20,279 --> 01:08:23,600 comback to gain back the trust to the equipment 1413 01:08:23,640 --> 01:08:25,199 that's within the mind of the ski racer. 1414 01:08:25,239 --> 01:08:27,680 - Do I have the right to say I don't want 1415 01:08:27,720 --> 01:08:29,039 to go if it's foggy? 1416 01:08:30,560 --> 01:08:31,640 - No 1417 01:08:31,680 --> 01:08:32,800 - No. 1418 01:08:32,840 --> 01:08:34,079 All right. 1419 01:08:34,119 --> 01:08:36,760 - From letting it loose and really go full blast 1420 01:08:36,800 --> 01:08:38,319 and push the limit. 1421 01:08:38,359 --> 01:08:40,119 It, it all happens in the, in the head. 1422 01:08:40,159 --> 01:08:42,479 It happens in the, in the brain. 1423 01:08:42,520 --> 01:08:43,359 - 10 seconds, 1424 01:08:44,960 --> 01:08:47,079 5,4,3 1425 01:08:47,119 --> 01:08:48,560 - Go, go, go, go 1426 01:08:51,319 --> 01:08:54,600 - The worst part about it is packing your bags 1427 01:08:54,640 --> 01:08:56,520 and living out of them and being away from all 1428 01:08:56,560 --> 01:08:58,560 the people that you really care about. 1429 01:09:00,199 --> 01:09:01,960 You start to think about who, you know, 1430 01:09:02,000 --> 01:09:04,760 who am I and what am I doing? 1431 01:09:06,239 --> 01:09:08,239 (audience cheering) 1432 01:09:08,279 --> 01:09:10,079 Am I stuck in this little world 1433 01:09:10,119 --> 01:09:11,119 of I'm a competitive athlete? 1434 01:09:11,159 --> 01:09:12,319 And that's what I'm all about. 1435 01:09:12,359 --> 01:09:14,760 And, and I'm not evolving as a person. 1436 01:09:16,560 --> 01:09:20,479 - Three months, four months of a year, and the same bag, 1437 01:09:20,520 --> 01:09:22,720 you know, when you're skiing well, 1438 01:09:22,760 --> 01:09:24,319 yeah, it is glamorous, 1439 01:09:24,359 --> 01:09:29,279 but when you're skiing slow and you're not performing, it's, 1440 01:09:29,319 --> 01:09:30,640 it's lonely on the road. 1441 01:09:32,119 --> 01:09:33,720 - So the training program's getting juggled around and it's, 1442 01:09:33,760 --> 01:09:35,319 and it's getting specific, 1443 01:09:35,359 --> 01:09:37,199 whether or not to come to a dry line camp now is a little 1444 01:09:37,239 --> 01:09:38,720 bit iffy and, you know, 1445 01:09:38,760 --> 01:09:39,680 sit next to the volleyball coach 1446 01:09:39,720 --> 01:09:40,960 and watch them play volleyball. 1447 01:09:41,000 --> 01:09:42,680 That kills me, you know, 1448 01:09:42,720 --> 01:09:44,760 but I show up anyway and like today I'm not going to 1449 01:09:44,800 --> 01:09:47,760 water-ski cause I shouldn't, I can, but I shouldn't. 1450 01:09:47,800 --> 01:09:49,800 So I'm gonna get in the water and I'm just gonna run in 1451 01:09:49,840 --> 01:09:51,560 the water and get a good workout. 1452 01:09:52,399 --> 01:09:53,520 Ooh. 1453 01:09:53,560 --> 01:09:54,800 Yeah. 1454 01:09:54,840 --> 01:09:56,720 Well we've brought obviously some young girls up. 1455 01:09:56,760 --> 01:09:59,760 So Julia Mancuso and Lindsey Kildow are our both very, 1456 01:09:59,800 --> 01:10:02,039 very good young skiers. 1457 01:10:02,079 --> 01:10:03,439 - When I was a little kid, 1458 01:10:03,479 --> 01:10:07,319 I wanted to be famous and I want to be 1459 01:10:07,359 --> 01:10:11,960 the most decorated skier of all time. 1460 01:10:12,000 --> 01:10:14,359 They want what I've gotten and more. 1461 01:10:15,079 --> 01:10:16,680 And that to me is what I want to see. 1462 01:10:16,720 --> 01:10:18,119 That's what I want to see when I look in their eyes, 1463 01:10:18,159 --> 01:10:20,079 because I don't want to walk away from the sport, 1464 01:10:20,119 --> 01:10:21,840 knowing that I set some pretty big footsteps 1465 01:10:21,880 --> 01:10:23,359 that may not be stepped in. 1466 01:10:25,840 --> 01:10:29,399 - That winter, I just kind of like, I, I was your shadow. 1467 01:10:29,439 --> 01:10:32,399 I don't know if you remember that in a sermonic. 1468 01:10:32,439 --> 01:10:34,720 Do you remember the camp that we had there? 1469 01:10:35,960 --> 01:10:39,319 And I, we were skiing super-G and I said, 1470 01:10:39,359 --> 01:10:41,439 "what are you looking at in inspection" 1471 01:10:41,479 --> 01:10:44,079 because I wanted to know like what you're looking at. 1472 01:10:44,119 --> 01:10:45,119 And you said, 1473 01:10:45,159 --> 01:10:46,920 "I'm looking at the fall line." 1474 01:10:46,960 --> 01:10:48,000 And I said," how did you know, 1475 01:10:48,039 --> 01:10:50,199 how do you know where the fall line is?" 1476 01:10:50,239 --> 01:10:53,199 And you said, "I can't tell you, you just have to know" 1477 01:10:53,239 --> 01:10:54,680 - You knew though that's why, 1478 01:10:54,720 --> 01:10:57,720 cause you love the fall line and you're in it all the time. 1479 01:10:57,760 --> 01:10:58,600 - I know. 1480 01:10:58,640 --> 01:11:01,760 But like, I remember that. 1481 01:11:02,960 --> 01:11:05,079 - Tamara said to me one time, 1482 01:11:05,119 --> 01:11:07,520 you're-- she didn't say you were a disaster. 1483 01:11:07,560 --> 01:11:09,399 Like she didn't flat out to me, but she said to me, 1484 01:11:09,439 --> 01:11:10,800 "she says, you have an incredible fire. 1485 01:11:10,840 --> 01:11:12,920 And when you finally learn how to channel it, right, 1486 01:11:12,960 --> 01:11:14,159 you're going to be unbeatable." 1487 01:11:14,199 --> 01:11:15,199 And I was like, 1488 01:11:15,239 --> 01:11:16,359 "what does that mean? 1489 01:11:16,399 --> 01:11:17,079 What do I do? 1490 01:11:17,119 --> 01:11:17,920 How do I do that?" 1491 01:11:17,960 --> 01:11:19,520 Like, yeah. Okay. 1492 01:11:19,560 --> 01:11:21,479 So that was our, that was that exactly. 1493 01:11:21,520 --> 01:11:22,359 - Wow. 1494 01:11:22,399 --> 01:11:23,560 - At that point in your career, 1495 01:11:23,600 --> 01:11:25,479 I think you're just on a different trajectory 1496 01:11:25,520 --> 01:11:30,079 and I wasn't sure like what your mindset was. 1497 01:11:31,079 --> 01:11:32,079 - What? 1498 01:11:32,119 --> 01:11:32,960 - Take a picture 1499 01:11:33,000 --> 01:11:34,720 - Ooh yes - Who? 1500 01:11:34,760 --> 01:11:36,119 - All together? 1501 01:11:37,319 --> 01:11:41,119 - We're going to go to the, the, the stadium, 1502 01:11:43,680 --> 01:11:46,479 (crowd cheering) 1503 01:11:47,199 --> 01:11:49,199 [Announcer] Ladies and gentlemen, 1504 01:11:49,239 --> 01:11:51,239 welcome to the opening ceremony of 1505 01:11:51,279 --> 01:11:53,840 the 19th Olympic winter games. 1506 01:11:53,880 --> 01:11:56,760 (trumpets blowing) 1507 01:12:00,399 --> 01:12:02,399 (crowd cheering) 1508 01:12:02,439 --> 01:12:05,079 - Picabo Street, said she probably would have retired, 1509 01:12:05,119 --> 01:12:08,359 had not the next Olympics been in her home country. 1510 01:12:08,399 --> 01:12:10,680 So she's back for a last hurrah. 1511 01:12:10,720 --> 01:12:14,000 [Announcer] The Olympic flame is now approaching 1512 01:12:14,039 --> 01:12:14,920 the stadium. 1513 01:12:14,960 --> 01:12:17,760 (crowd cheering) 1514 01:12:20,279 --> 01:12:22,920 Picabo Street and Cammi Granato. 1515 01:12:22,960 --> 01:12:23,760 (Crowd cheering) 1516 01:12:23,800 --> 01:12:25,119 - Proud members of 1517 01:12:25,159 --> 01:12:28,039 the Olympic team. Each a gold medalist in Nagano. 1518 01:12:28,079 --> 01:12:30,600 Street is a skier, Granato is captain of 1519 01:12:30,640 --> 01:12:31,960 the women's hockey team. 1520 01:12:33,279 --> 01:12:36,119 And soon the moment everyone has been waiting for. 1521 01:12:37,279 --> 01:12:40,520 - I remember it being this really methodical, euphoric, 1522 01:12:40,560 --> 01:12:43,760 almost like dreamy moment of climbing up those stairs, 1523 01:12:43,800 --> 01:12:45,159 holding the torch. 1524 01:12:45,199 --> 01:12:47,840 [Reporter] Street and Granato march by Mike Eruzione, 1525 01:12:48,760 --> 01:12:51,720 from the Miracle on Ice hockey team of 1980 1526 01:12:51,760 --> 01:12:53,119 that won the gold medal. 1527 01:12:54,199 --> 01:12:56,079 [Picabo] It was so cool to be a part 1528 01:12:56,119 --> 01:12:58,720 of such a beautiful moment for our country 1529 01:12:58,760 --> 01:12:59,960 and for the Olympics. 1530 01:13:02,000 --> 01:13:04,199 [Announcer] Gold medal Hockey team. 1531 01:13:04,960 --> 01:13:06,000 Team USA 1532 01:13:06,840 --> 01:13:09,680 (Crowd cheering) 1533 01:13:09,720 --> 01:13:12,640 (soft piano music) 1534 01:13:12,680 --> 01:13:15,000 [Picabo] In the back of my mind, I'm thinking, you know, 1535 01:13:15,039 --> 01:13:17,439 that was-- that might've been my show. 1536 01:13:20,600 --> 01:13:23,399 (calm music) 1537 01:13:28,520 --> 01:13:32,159 (calm music) 1538 01:13:42,560 --> 01:13:45,399 (calm music) 1539 01:13:47,880 --> 01:13:49,039 - I'm with Picabo Street, 1540 01:13:49,079 --> 01:13:50,279 just below the women's start at the lodge, 1541 01:13:50,319 --> 01:13:51,840 and we're out of the public eye. 1542 01:13:51,880 --> 01:13:54,560 24 people going in front of you, does it change the plan at all? 1543 01:13:54,600 --> 01:13:55,720 - It changes it a tiny bit. 1544 01:13:55,760 --> 01:13:58,079 Obviously, with the warm weather, the delays, 1545 01:13:58,119 --> 01:13:59,800 it's bumped us back to noon today. 1546 01:13:59,840 --> 01:14:00,920 We've got a pretty aggressive line 1547 01:14:00,960 --> 01:14:02,239 we wanna run off the jump today. 1548 01:14:02,279 --> 01:14:04,520 And bottom line is, it's a beautiful sunny day. 1549 01:14:04,560 --> 01:14:07,039 It's my last day out here, so. I've been enjoying it so far, 1550 01:14:07,079 --> 01:14:09,199 and we'll see if I can make it another good one. 1551 01:14:11,039 --> 01:14:14,039 (calm music) 1552 01:14:15,119 --> 01:14:16,199 [Woman On Radio] You guys, the key to this course 1553 01:14:16,239 --> 01:14:18,000 is to attack, that's all there is to it. 1554 01:14:18,039 --> 01:14:20,840 Get low in the traverse up there 1555 01:14:20,880 --> 01:14:21,920 and come down and just attack. 1556 01:14:21,960 --> 01:14:23,760 The snow is nice, it's goopy. 1557 01:14:23,800 --> 01:14:25,119 You just got to lay it over 1558 01:14:25,159 --> 01:14:26,199 and believe in yourselves. 1559 01:14:26,239 --> 01:14:28,279 Come on. There's no tricks. So just go! 1560 01:14:33,760 --> 01:14:36,560 (calm music) 1561 01:14:47,760 --> 01:14:51,479 (calm music) 1562 01:14:55,199 --> 01:14:56,720 [Announcer] Carol Montillet, France, still the leader, 1563 01:14:56,760 --> 01:14:59,079 followed by Kostner of Italy, Goetschl of Austria, 1564 01:14:59,119 --> 01:15:00,399 and all three of those women, 1565 01:15:00,439 --> 01:15:02,760 know there's only one serious contender left 1566 01:15:02,800 --> 01:15:04,800 who can drop into that medal count. 1567 01:15:04,840 --> 01:15:07,119 And here she is, Picabo Street. 1568 01:15:07,159 --> 01:15:10,079 (Skis clacking) 1569 01:15:11,520 --> 01:15:14,359 (calm music) 1570 01:15:15,800 --> 01:15:17,039 - Go, Picabo! 1571 01:15:19,079 --> 01:15:21,720 (Dee whistles) 1572 01:15:23,159 --> 01:15:26,520 Go, Picabo! Come on, girl! Lets see it! 1573 01:15:26,560 --> 01:15:27,920 - Come on Peek! - All right Peek, come on! 1574 01:15:27,960 --> 01:15:29,319 [Coach] Good strong start now! Come on! 1575 01:15:29,359 --> 01:15:31,079 [Time Keeper] 10 seconds! [Teammate] Go Peek! 1576 01:15:31,119 --> 01:15:32,439 - Go girl! - Come on Peek! 1577 01:15:32,479 --> 01:15:35,000 [Teammate] Burn it up girl! Charge it! Come on! Go! 1578 01:15:35,039 --> 01:15:39,119 [Time Keeper] 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 (teammates cheering) 1579 01:15:39,159 --> 01:15:41,119 [Announcer] Pushed to display all of her success, 1580 01:15:41,159 --> 01:15:43,119 this is the run of her life. 1581 01:15:43,159 --> 01:15:44,640 - And she truly believes 1582 01:15:44,680 --> 01:15:47,199 that she can do it, and then she loves this course. 1583 01:15:47,239 --> 01:15:49,800 She feels like she owns it. She skied well on it. 1584 01:15:49,840 --> 01:15:53,119 She's fastest up at the top. This is where she truly excels. 1585 01:15:53,159 --> 01:15:56,119 Look at how wide her stance is and her tuck. 1586 01:15:56,159 --> 01:15:57,560 She just drops way down 1587 01:15:57,600 --> 01:16:01,159 and lets her skis float above the snow. 1588 01:16:02,960 --> 01:16:06,000 (inspiring music) 1589 01:16:12,600 --> 01:16:16,319 (inspiring music) 1590 01:16:18,920 --> 01:16:21,720 (crowd cheering) 1591 01:16:24,760 --> 01:16:28,159 (inspirational music) 1592 01:16:29,319 --> 01:16:31,119 [Announcer] Here's the first jump over shooting star, 1593 01:16:31,159 --> 01:16:32,359 not too bad. 1594 01:16:32,399 --> 01:16:35,039 2/10 back however, so that bobble up higher 1595 01:16:35,079 --> 01:16:36,640 has cost her time. 1596 01:16:38,000 --> 01:16:39,159 - It's still not too late, 1597 01:16:39,199 --> 01:16:40,479 there's some good turns. 1598 01:16:40,520 --> 01:16:42,239 She skied well down here on the bottom in training. 1599 01:16:42,279 --> 01:16:43,920 She needs to get back into her tuck though. 1600 01:16:43,960 --> 01:16:46,359 Looking a little tentative. 1601 01:16:49,800 --> 01:16:53,119 (inspirational music) 1602 01:17:00,319 --> 01:17:04,560 (inspirational music) 1603 01:17:13,000 --> 01:17:15,960 (crowd cheering) 1604 01:17:24,159 --> 01:17:27,479 (inspirational music) 1605 01:17:40,720 --> 01:17:43,479 (crowd cheering) 1606 01:17:50,479 --> 01:17:53,560 (cheering continues) 1607 01:17:59,279 --> 01:18:01,439 - But I have nothing but admiration 1608 01:18:01,479 --> 01:18:04,199 for a stellar effort by this Olympic champion who, 1609 01:18:04,239 --> 01:18:07,399 by all rights, shouldn't have even been a contender here. 1610 01:18:08,560 --> 01:18:11,640 The greatest American downhiller ever taking a final bow. 1611 01:18:14,880 --> 01:18:17,760 (crowd cheering) 1612 01:18:21,319 --> 01:18:22,800 - You won that rose, kid. 1613 01:18:22,840 --> 01:18:24,960 - I know. I know. 1614 01:18:25,680 --> 01:18:27,760 - And you'd win that rose, you know what happened. 1615 01:18:27,800 --> 01:18:28,960 - Yep, it's all good. 1616 01:18:29,000 --> 01:18:31,439 - Yeah. You had 'em for a while, man. 1617 01:18:32,399 --> 01:18:34,279 It's good for ya. I'm really proud of you, honey. 1618 01:18:34,319 --> 01:18:37,720 - Thanks Dad, thanks for everything. 1619 01:18:37,760 --> 01:18:39,359 - You bet. 1620 01:18:39,399 --> 01:18:41,960 - No more 3 AM phone calls. - Yeah! 1621 01:18:43,920 --> 01:18:46,479 [Announcer] So for Picabo, there's no storybook finish 1622 01:18:46,520 --> 01:18:48,000 for the comeback girl. 1623 01:18:48,039 --> 01:18:50,399 But she's leaving ski racing, having brought more attention 1624 01:18:50,439 --> 01:18:53,359 to her sport in the U S. than anyone before her. 1625 01:18:55,800 --> 01:18:57,279 - Best day I've ever had 1626 01:18:57,319 --> 01:18:59,479 in my ski racing career, it's all because of you, thank you. 1627 01:19:02,119 --> 01:19:05,039 [Announcer] Turns out, everyone's rooting for this- 1628 01:19:05,079 --> 01:19:07,439 - Thanks to my mom and dad. 1629 01:19:07,479 --> 01:19:09,199 You guys have been great throughout my whole career. 1630 01:19:09,239 --> 01:19:11,359 You've always supported me and you've been there 1631 01:19:11,399 --> 01:19:13,479 waiting for that phone call at 4 o'clock in the morning. 1632 01:19:13,520 --> 01:19:18,680 Now we won't have to wait anymore. I'll be home baby. Whoo! 1633 01:19:19,039 --> 01:19:20,199 And it's hard to explain to people 1634 01:19:20,239 --> 01:19:21,520 that that was rewarding for me. 1635 01:19:21,560 --> 01:19:24,119 They're like, "What? You got you 16th." 1636 01:19:24,159 --> 01:19:27,720 And I'm like, yeah, all the history, 1637 01:19:27,760 --> 01:19:29,760 all the water under the bridge, all of the time, 1638 01:19:29,800 --> 01:19:34,520 all the effort, all of the, you know, ups and downs. 1639 01:19:34,560 --> 01:19:40,760 It's like, there's more to it than that time at the finish. 1640 01:19:43,199 --> 01:19:45,359 I just hugged Lindsey Kildow. She's 17 years old, 1641 01:19:45,399 --> 01:19:46,520 first time in the Olympics, 1642 01:19:46,560 --> 01:19:48,079 getting the jitters out of her system. 1643 01:19:48,119 --> 01:19:51,319 And you know, my team is good. It's big and it's strong. 1644 01:19:51,359 --> 01:19:53,880 And I'm gonna really have a fun time living vicariously 1645 01:19:53,920 --> 01:19:55,239 through them and watching them. 1646 01:19:55,279 --> 01:19:56,640 And, hopefully, I'll be hugging them one day 1647 01:19:56,680 --> 01:19:57,840 after they've won a gold medal. 1648 01:19:57,880 --> 01:20:00,479 'Cause the feeling is great when it happens. 1649 01:20:05,760 --> 01:20:08,039 - It was such a great Olympics. - It was perfect, yeah. 1650 01:20:08,079 --> 01:20:08,920 - Yeah, it was such a great games. 1651 01:20:08,960 --> 01:20:11,039 Way to represent by the way. 1652 01:20:11,079 --> 01:20:13,039 Top finish of the U.S. at those games. 1653 01:20:13,079 --> 01:20:14,119 - I know, but everyone over... 1654 01:20:14,159 --> 01:20:16,359 Everyone was like, "Our team did so bad. 1655 01:20:16,399 --> 01:20:18,560 We're going to pretend like you didn't even do that." 1656 01:20:18,600 --> 01:20:20,079 So I got literally- - Just made you more hungry. 1657 01:20:20,119 --> 01:20:22,000 - 'Cause you retired, and I was, like, on the team. 1658 01:20:22,039 --> 01:20:23,199 - Ma, ma, mrr, mrr mrr. (Picabo laughs) 1659 01:20:23,239 --> 01:20:26,359 - Yeah, and I was like, no one even cares. 1660 01:20:26,399 --> 01:20:28,319 - They missed our baton handoff, didn't they? 1661 01:20:28,359 --> 01:20:31,479 - I know! They're late to the game. 1662 01:20:35,840 --> 01:20:39,000 - Picabo Street's retirement was among the most prominent 1663 01:20:39,039 --> 01:20:41,319 storylines to come out of the Winter Olympics. 1664 01:20:41,359 --> 01:20:43,920 - I feel so great. I feel so relieved, Judy. 1665 01:20:43,960 --> 01:20:45,359 It's really been incredible. 1666 01:20:45,399 --> 01:20:48,239 I mean, the Olympic experience has been wonderful for me. 1667 01:20:48,279 --> 01:20:50,239 And I've gotten to feel it 1668 01:20:50,279 --> 01:20:51,840 from all the different perspectives 1669 01:20:51,880 --> 01:20:53,359 that you can feel it from. 1670 01:20:56,239 --> 01:20:58,600 I knew that I was gonna need a couple of years 1671 01:20:58,640 --> 01:21:01,079 to find myself and figure out what I wanted 1672 01:21:01,119 --> 01:21:02,079 to do with my life. 1673 01:21:02,119 --> 01:21:03,479 I knew I wanted to pay it forward, 1674 01:21:03,520 --> 01:21:05,279 but in what form? 1675 01:21:05,319 --> 01:21:08,319 And then, what do I want for me, personally, in my life? 1676 01:21:11,119 --> 01:21:14,159 (electronic music) 1677 01:21:21,079 --> 01:21:22,520 - You're so, like, you. 1678 01:21:22,560 --> 01:21:24,239 And you always say what's on your mind, 1679 01:21:24,279 --> 01:21:27,079 and you have no filter, and that's what I love about you. 1680 01:21:27,119 --> 01:21:29,119 Do you ever feel like you were judged 1681 01:21:29,159 --> 01:21:31,119 kind of for being a rebel? - Oh, yeah. All the time. 1682 01:21:31,159 --> 01:21:32,560 All the time. 1683 01:21:32,600 --> 01:21:34,880 I think you feel it always, that people are judging you. 1684 01:21:34,920 --> 01:21:37,079 When you're growing up in the spotlight, 1685 01:21:37,119 --> 01:21:39,000 I felt judged all along. 1686 01:21:39,039 --> 01:21:42,239 It magnified a whole lot more about five years ago. 1687 01:21:49,159 --> 01:21:50,159 [Media Journalist] Picabo called the cops 1688 01:21:50,199 --> 01:21:52,039 after her father, who's diabetic, 1689 01:21:52,079 --> 01:21:54,079 became belligerent and confused 1690 01:21:54,119 --> 01:21:57,119 after his blood sugar dropped to a dangerous level. 1691 01:21:57,159 --> 01:22:01,119 - As dad was getting older, I think as time went on, 1692 01:22:01,159 --> 01:22:03,000 it was getting rawer and rawer 1693 01:22:03,039 --> 01:22:06,279 with this mismanagement of his diabetes. 1694 01:22:06,319 --> 01:22:10,199 And so, Peek had become a caretaker for them. 1695 01:22:10,239 --> 01:22:11,760 So they were living with her 1696 01:22:12,560 --> 01:22:15,399 and, you know, there's a lot of frustration, 1697 01:22:16,159 --> 01:22:19,600 especially with mom and Peek, he would get physical. 1698 01:22:19,640 --> 01:22:22,279 [Media Journalist] Picabo says her father attacked her 1699 01:22:22,319 --> 01:22:23,840 by grabbing her hair. 1700 01:22:23,880 --> 01:22:25,600 - Two handfuls on either side of my neck, 1701 01:22:25,640 --> 01:22:27,000 and I was, I started... 1702 01:22:27,039 --> 01:22:30,319 I put my hands on his chest and he stumbled backwards. 1703 01:22:30,359 --> 01:22:33,039 - She says they both fell down the stairs. 1704 01:22:33,079 --> 01:22:36,239 When she broke free, she called 911. 1705 01:22:41,640 --> 01:22:43,920 - Were you afraid your father was going to hurt you? 1706 01:22:43,960 --> 01:22:45,279 - Oh, I was petrified. 1707 01:22:45,319 --> 01:22:46,760 - She called for help 1708 01:22:46,800 --> 01:22:49,680 because her father was in the middle of a medical crisis. 1709 01:22:49,720 --> 01:22:51,079 And she ended up getting arrested 1710 01:22:51,119 --> 01:22:53,640 when she did not deserve to at all. 1711 01:22:54,560 --> 01:22:57,920 And it crushed her brand, her impact, 1712 01:22:57,960 --> 01:22:59,520 and a lot of her spirit. 1713 01:22:59,560 --> 01:23:00,920 [News Host] Former Olympian was charged 1714 01:23:00,960 --> 01:23:02,720 with one count of assault and three counts 1715 01:23:02,760 --> 01:23:06,439 of domestic violence, all of which are misdemeanors. 1716 01:23:06,479 --> 01:23:08,319 [Media Journalist] Both of her parents signed affidavits 1717 01:23:08,359 --> 01:23:09,640 supporting their daughter. 1718 01:23:09,680 --> 01:23:13,239 Her father wrote, "The entire episode was my fault. 1719 01:23:13,279 --> 01:23:16,079 And Picabo was only defending herself." 1720 01:23:16,119 --> 01:23:19,199 - I can look at it like I should've never called for help, 1721 01:23:19,239 --> 01:23:21,159 but we always called for help. 1722 01:23:21,199 --> 01:23:24,319 It was what we always did, call for help for Dad. 1723 01:23:24,359 --> 01:23:25,520 [Media Journalist] Four weeks ago, 1724 01:23:25,560 --> 01:23:28,319 the prosecution finally dropped all charges. 1725 01:23:28,359 --> 01:23:32,000 - It kicked her the curbs so fast, you know, 1726 01:23:32,039 --> 01:23:35,239 and all of our sponsorships went away so fast 1727 01:23:35,279 --> 01:23:37,600 that it devastated her. 1728 01:23:37,640 --> 01:23:39,920 - They should not have arrested Picabo. 1729 01:23:39,960 --> 01:23:41,399 [Media Journalist] Picabo's lawyer, Joe Rona, 1730 01:23:41,439 --> 01:23:45,199 is adamant that prosecutors and police rushed to judgment. 1731 01:23:45,239 --> 01:23:50,319 - They can destroy lives simply by filing a criminal charge. 1732 01:23:51,039 --> 01:23:52,920 - I invited her to a golf tournament. 1733 01:23:52,960 --> 01:23:54,840 I just thought she'd come in as Picabo, 1734 01:23:54,880 --> 01:23:56,560 you know, own the room. 1735 01:23:56,600 --> 01:24:00,399 And I made eye contact with her in the foyer, 1736 01:24:00,439 --> 01:24:03,239 and she wasn't coming in until I went and got her. 1737 01:24:03,279 --> 01:24:04,960 And that just crushed me. 1738 01:24:08,960 --> 01:24:11,720 - It started when I was a little girl 1739 01:24:11,760 --> 01:24:13,399 and got worse when he got diabetes. 1740 01:24:13,439 --> 01:24:17,000 And then we found out that he had early onset dementia 1741 01:24:17,039 --> 01:24:18,399 when we had our incident. 1742 01:24:20,159 --> 01:24:21,680 He doesn't remember what day it was, 1743 01:24:21,720 --> 01:24:23,399 what time of day it was, nothing. 1744 01:24:24,439 --> 01:24:27,319 He had so much remorse in the last couple of years of his life 1745 01:24:27,359 --> 01:24:29,159 and I showed him so much grace. 1746 01:24:31,479 --> 01:24:33,520 The last time I saw him, he was making potato salad 1747 01:24:33,560 --> 01:24:35,520 with these little teeny potatoes he loved 1748 01:24:35,560 --> 01:24:40,279 and I said, "I gotta go get my kids, Dad." 1749 01:24:40,319 --> 01:24:42,119 And he turned and said, "All right, boo. I love you." 1750 01:24:42,159 --> 01:24:43,159 And I said, "I love you, too." 1751 01:24:43,199 --> 01:24:44,279 And I walked out. 1752 01:24:45,159 --> 01:24:47,600 And that's the last time I saw him. 1753 01:24:47,640 --> 01:24:50,119 But I got the goodbye, 1754 01:24:50,159 --> 01:24:52,239 and I think that's God's way of being like, 1755 01:24:52,279 --> 01:24:53,720 "You were there always." 1756 01:24:53,760 --> 01:24:55,199 You know? 1757 01:24:55,239 --> 01:24:58,159 Because this was such a beautiful, insane, 1758 01:24:58,199 --> 01:25:02,720 intense relationship that engulfed everything 1759 01:25:02,760 --> 01:25:04,960 and was magical. 1760 01:25:07,000 --> 01:25:08,199 Daxy, come on, honey! 1761 01:25:09,000 --> 01:25:11,159 It's an honor to care for a parent. 1762 01:25:11,199 --> 01:25:13,199 And I care for my Mom every day. 1763 01:25:13,239 --> 01:25:14,520 It was an honor to care for my Dad. 1764 01:25:14,560 --> 01:25:18,199 It was hard and scary and I failed a lot, 1765 01:25:18,239 --> 01:25:23,399 but it makes such a better person out of you. 1766 01:25:24,159 --> 01:25:25,119 (Picabo chuckling) 1767 01:25:25,159 --> 01:25:26,840 [Picabo] It's fun to try to go, 1768 01:25:26,880 --> 01:25:29,760 you get it, like right there. 1769 01:25:30,920 --> 01:25:31,960 - You're good, dude. 1770 01:25:32,000 --> 01:25:34,319 - Come on, get in here! 1771 01:25:34,359 --> 01:25:35,399 Ride with me! 1772 01:25:36,399 --> 01:25:38,079 (gentle music) 1773 01:25:38,119 --> 01:25:40,880 - There's this analogy that my girlfriend said to me, 1774 01:25:40,920 --> 01:25:43,880 and it's, "When you become a mom, 1775 01:25:43,920 --> 01:25:47,239 you are instantly tethered with this sled, 1776 01:25:48,359 --> 01:25:49,960 and you're constantly pulling the sled 1777 01:25:50,000 --> 01:25:51,800 whether all of the kids are riding in it, 1778 01:25:51,840 --> 01:25:53,079 or none of them are riding in it. 1779 01:25:53,119 --> 01:25:55,600 It doesn't matter, you're still pulling it along." 1780 01:25:58,520 --> 01:26:02,159 It's such a warming, welcoming, like forever feeling. 1781 01:26:02,199 --> 01:26:04,039 (soft music playing) 1782 01:26:04,079 --> 01:26:06,119 It's like nothing else on the planet. 1783 01:26:06,960 --> 01:26:09,600 - Better than skiing? - Oh my God, yeah. 1784 01:26:09,640 --> 01:26:11,039 Don't worry, if you bump me, 1785 01:26:11,079 --> 01:26:12,880 I'll just bump Trey and he can go off the edge. 1786 01:26:12,920 --> 01:26:13,800 - Deal! 1787 01:26:13,840 --> 01:26:16,199 (soft music playing) 1788 01:26:16,239 --> 01:26:19,359 - What's the one thing that you wish that people knew? 1789 01:26:20,199 --> 01:26:23,880 Like take down the hard eggshell. 1790 01:26:23,920 --> 01:26:25,239 Like what's the one thing that is like, 1791 01:26:25,279 --> 01:26:27,359 this is me that you don't know? 1792 01:26:28,239 --> 01:26:29,439 - You know, I think a lot of people see me 1793 01:26:29,479 --> 01:26:33,079 as a lot harder and tougher than I really am. 1794 01:26:36,159 --> 01:26:38,920 I feel like there's two operating systems that we have. 1795 01:26:38,960 --> 01:26:40,119 We're either operating out of love 1796 01:26:40,159 --> 01:26:41,479 or we're operating out of fear. 1797 01:26:41,520 --> 01:26:43,520 I don't think the hate is the opposite of love. 1798 01:26:43,560 --> 01:26:45,119 I think fear is. 1799 01:26:45,800 --> 01:26:46,960 And it's like, I don't, 1800 01:26:47,000 --> 01:26:49,600 I don't want to be stifled by that anymore. 1801 01:26:54,960 --> 01:26:57,319 [Picabo] You'd go noodling where? 1802 01:26:57,359 --> 01:26:58,600 (man laughing) 1803 01:26:58,640 --> 01:27:00,159 - Down in there? - Yeah! 1804 01:27:00,199 --> 01:27:02,000 - You would not! - Yeah you would! 1805 01:27:02,039 --> 01:27:03,720 - No you wouldn't! - Yeah I would! 1806 01:27:03,760 --> 01:27:05,279 - Are you serious? - Easily! 1807 01:27:05,319 --> 01:27:07,560 - Come on! Would you? What would you wear? 1808 01:27:07,600 --> 01:27:09,159 There's a Cherokee proverb of like, 1809 01:27:09,199 --> 01:27:11,680 you have two wolves that live inside of you 1810 01:27:11,720 --> 01:27:13,760 and one of them is super kind and pumps you up 1811 01:27:13,800 --> 01:27:15,039 and makes you feel good. 1812 01:27:15,079 --> 01:27:16,760 And the other one's super nasty and mean and evil. 1813 01:27:16,800 --> 01:27:20,319 And when the little grandson asks the Cherokee grandpa, 1814 01:27:20,359 --> 01:27:23,359 "What wolf wins the battle?" 1815 01:27:23,399 --> 01:27:26,079 He says "The one you feed." 1816 01:27:26,119 --> 01:27:29,359 (soft music playing) 1817 01:27:30,560 --> 01:27:32,560 - The button? Which one? 1818 01:27:33,479 --> 01:27:34,920 Yeah! You got it! 1819 01:27:34,960 --> 01:27:36,439 - And grab this. 1820 01:27:37,640 --> 01:27:40,720 (soft music playing) 1821 01:27:42,640 --> 01:27:43,439 - You look great! 1822 01:27:43,479 --> 01:27:44,119 - Thank you. 1823 01:27:44,159 --> 01:27:47,199 (soft music playing) 1824 01:27:47,239 --> 01:27:49,720 - I deal with that same battle that everybody does 1825 01:27:49,760 --> 01:27:51,199 all day, every day. 1826 01:27:51,239 --> 01:27:53,920 What's the story you're telling yourself? 1827 01:27:53,960 --> 01:27:56,319 It's a beautiful thing to be raw and real 1828 01:27:56,359 --> 01:27:58,680 and human and going through it. 1829 01:27:58,720 --> 01:28:00,239 Not... - You taught me that. 1830 01:28:00,279 --> 01:28:01,319 - Not trying to hide from it 1831 01:28:01,359 --> 01:28:03,319 and be something you're not, right? 1832 01:28:03,359 --> 01:28:04,680 - Well, that's what you taught me. 1833 01:28:04,720 --> 01:28:07,439 Then that allowed me to do the same thing. 1834 01:28:07,479 --> 01:28:08,479 - Good. 1835 01:28:08,520 --> 01:28:09,359 Yay. 1836 01:28:12,079 --> 01:28:13,039 - Nuh-uh! 1837 01:28:13,800 --> 01:28:14,720 Linds! 1838 01:28:14,760 --> 01:28:17,039 - Yeah. This is in my bedroom. 1839 01:28:17,079 --> 01:28:18,960 Not awkward at all, I'm 36 years old. 1840 01:28:19,000 --> 01:28:20,720 (Picabo laughing) 1841 01:28:20,760 --> 01:28:21,720 - But 1842 01:28:21,760 --> 01:28:22,840 - That's a cool poster! 1843 01:28:22,880 --> 01:28:25,760 - Team Street. - Team Street! 1844 01:28:25,800 --> 01:28:27,000 - Yep. - Linds... 1845 01:28:27,039 --> 01:28:29,319 - "Follow your dreams! "I did. - Yeah, you did. 1846 01:28:31,600 --> 01:28:32,760 - So thank you. 1847 01:28:32,800 --> 01:28:33,680 - Yeah. 1848 01:28:41,159 --> 01:28:45,159 (instrumental music playing) 1849 01:28:47,920 --> 01:28:49,520 - Follow in your footsteps in that way. 1850 01:28:49,560 --> 01:28:50,560 Like you, you know, 1851 01:28:50,600 --> 01:28:53,479 inspired me and I try to inspire others 1852 01:28:53,520 --> 01:28:55,680 and I hope the next generation does the same. 1853 01:28:55,720 --> 01:28:56,520 - Pay it forward. 1854 01:28:56,560 --> 01:28:58,000 - But you know, 1855 01:28:58,039 --> 01:29:00,199 I think what you're doing with your academy is incredible. 1856 01:29:00,239 --> 01:29:01,640 - That's funny. It's so cool. 1857 01:29:01,680 --> 01:29:03,640 - What drove you to start that? 1858 01:29:03,680 --> 01:29:06,119 - I was lucky to be one of the early ones on the ski team 1859 01:29:06,159 --> 01:29:08,000 when they had a strong development program. 1860 01:29:08,039 --> 01:29:09,439 - Yeah. 1861 01:29:09,479 --> 01:29:10,720 - And we were doing school on the road and it was tough. 1862 01:29:10,760 --> 01:29:13,399 I struggled and I want other people to not run 1863 01:29:13,439 --> 01:29:15,960 into that situation and not feel unprepared. 1864 01:29:16,000 --> 01:29:21,159 * Later I'd watch you and wonder what it was like * 1865 01:29:22,880 --> 01:29:26,119 * How do you bear the full weight? * 1866 01:29:26,159 --> 01:29:29,479 * How does the long way feel? * 1867 01:29:29,520 --> 01:29:34,680 * Kneading your hand too tight against the wheel? * 1868 01:29:36,479 --> 01:29:40,000 * How do you stay in that tower? * 1869 01:29:40,039 --> 01:29:43,520 * How do you reckon your own power? * 1870 01:29:43,560 --> 01:29:48,720 * How does the wheel not turn hour on hour on hour? * 1871 01:29:50,960 --> 01:29:54,840 * I was trying to find my way * 1872 01:29:54,880 --> 01:29:57,680 * I was thinking my mind was made * 1873 01:29:57,720 --> 01:30:01,840 * But you were making my heart change shape * 1874 01:30:01,880 --> 01:30:04,840 * It's all that I could take * 1875 01:30:04,880 --> 01:30:07,760 * I was trying to find my way *