Alpine skiing section. The latest glory for the soaring U.S. Alpine skiing team came today from a freckled free spirit out of the Idaho mountains whose history reads like a manual from the hippie counterculture. A lot of good teams are going to leave here without any. Not the Americans. With two golds and two silvers in the bank, U.S. skiers need just one more Alpine medal in the next eight days to match their most successful Olympics ever, the 1984 Games in Sarajevo, when skiers took three golds and two silvers.
Street fits right in.
But her practice times on the downhill were excellent here, concluding with the best time of the day in the final run Friday. She was confident, she admitted, but wildly nervous before the start. She almost came to a stop at the end of that one jump. If she hadn't had that, she'd have been in there fighting for the gold. Italy's Isolde Kostner was a quarter-second behind Street for the bronze.