By Picabo Street
Olympic Gold Medalist Picabo road is once more at the upward push, able to face the 2002 Olympics and inform her awesome tale "Picabo Street...is the type of athlete for which the Olympics have been invented."USA at the present time "Street...has been functioning at Porsche speed...dominating women's downhill... [a] comeback queen."Glamour "Picabo rules... America's irrepressible ski champion."Skiing Olympic Champion Picabo highway is golden once more the instant she burst onto the area level on the 1994 iciness Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway, 23-year-old pace demon Picabo road ignited a fireplace of pleasure within the media and within the hearts of fanatics that keeps to burn this present day. Free-spirited and outspoken, highway was once a brand new type of lady athlete and a brand new type of function version. highway her silver medal win with immediately international Cup downhill titlesa feat unequalled in American skiingand eventually, the final word Olympic gold medal win in Nagano in 1998. yet luck had its expense. only one month after her gold medal win, road careened off beam in a race in Switzerland, snapping her left femur in , shredding the ligament in her correct knee, and leaving her destiny in danger. Now, after years of excruciating soreness, grueling rehabilitation, and attractive own development, road is coming round again, able to face the 2002 iciness Olympics and able to inform her inspiring tale. during this strong, sincere autobiography, highway stocks her coming-of-age event, revealing how adversity formed a rebellious tomboy right into a champion athlete and compassionate lady, in concord along with her family members and at peace together with her worry of failure. the following, for the 1st time, road addresses the pressures exerted on her by means of her ski sponsors that could were partially responsible for her negative crash; the scandals surrounding the Salt Lake urban Olympic Committee; and the way she overcame a long, debilitating melancholy. within the culture of Lance Armstrong's it is not in regards to the motorcycle and Greg Louganis's Breaking the skin, Picabo: not anything to conceal is a poignant, intimate account of a girl compelled to rebuild herselfbody, brain, and soul. "I realized what all women have to examine: that you should kick ass, and also you shouldn't ever be embarrassed about it."Picabo highway