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Street hopes fairy tale career ends with a medal at home.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
The fairy tale career of Picabo Street may not have that happily-ever-after ending, after all.
The queen of comebacks and the Xena of the U.S. ski team, Street's bid to qualify for the Winter Games and defend her Olympic crown in the super-G appears to have fallen short.
Street made her third U.S. Olympic team, but she will compete only in the women's downhill at the Salt Lake City Games. What was painted as the latest comeback in a merciless succession of major injuries has not materialized.
In her last chance to earn a place in the super-G on the U.S. team, the 30-year-old Street finished 33rd in a World Cup race last week in Cortina, Italy, and left the course with moist eyes.
She told the "Rocky Mountain News", which covered the race, "I'm frustrated, not that I didn't make the team, but rather that I'm not doing well.
"There are just certain risks that you have to take in super-G that I guess I'm not ready to take."
Her most recent injury likely was her worst. Shortly after she won the gold medal in the super-G in Nagano in 1998, Street ...
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