SkiingPicabo Street, the two-time World Cup downhill...

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Picabo Street, the two-time World Cup downhill champion from Sun Valley, Idaho, tore ligaments and cartilage in her left knee in a training crash and will require season-ending surgery.

Dr. Richard Steadman said surgery will be postponed “until at least next week, because the swelling is so bad. I don’t expect her to be back on snow for at least six months.”

Miscellany

Soccer’s world governing body is considering a proposal to pull the men’s game out of the Olympics and set up an under-23 world championship.

The issue goes before FIFA’s executive committee meeting Saturday in Barcelona and could eventually wipe the men’s game from the Olympic program.

The U.S. Olympic Committee will pursue an automatic checkoff on federal income tax returns as a means to raise about $25 million in new revenue the next four years.

DuPont has ended its seven-year involvement with the Tour duPont bicycle race, leaving the 1,100-mile event next May without a title sponsor and perhaps in jeopardy.