SKIING : Street Streak Ends at Six in Downhill

Picabo Street was unable to overcome a bad start Friday and finished sixth in a World Cup downhill race.

Katja Seizinger snapped Street’s six-race downhill winning streak. The 18th career victory for the German, and the second- and third-place finishes of Switzerland’s Heidi Zurbriggen and Austria’s Alexandra Meissnitzer further stamped the event as a major disappointment for the Americans.

Hilary Lindh finished fourth, making it the first time she or Street hadn’t finished in the top three since the end of the 1993-1994 season.

“When you run a double downhill, each run is only a minute long and there is no room for mistakes,” American coach Ernst Hager said of Street, who was the fastest on the second run. “She made her mistake halfway up the first run.”

Street exited the finishing area without comment after losing her chance to challenge retired Austrian Anne Marie Moser-Proell’s record of 11 consecutive downhill victories.

A lack of snow forced officials to stage the downhill in the sprint format, the winner finishing with the best two-run combined time.