This Street Heading Downhill

Picabo Street’s last run comes in today’s women’s downhill on the Wildflower course at Snowbasin. The most successful U.S. women’s skier in history, she finished second in this event at Lillehammer in 1994 and won the super-G four years ago at Nagano. But injuries have taken their toll. In her last season before retirement, she didn’t qualify to defend her super-G title and wasn’t considered a serious contender in the downhill.

Until Saturday. That’s when she had the fastest training run. Teammate Caroline Lalive was second. Italy’s Isolde Kostner, the World Cup downhill champion in 2000-01, remains the favorite. She won two bronze medals in 1994, in the downhill and the super-G. Other contenders include Austria’s Renate Goetschl and Germany’s Hilde Gerg.