Olympic gold medalist Picabo Street charged with assault
Team Liberty Mutual athlete and U.S. Olympian Picabo Street, right, showed off her 1998 Olympic gold medal to Audrey Dearlove, left, and her sister Honor, and their mother, Cathy, of Wilmington, Del., at the Road to Sochi Tour, presented by Liberty Mutual Insurance, in Jan. 2014 at the Boston Common. (Photo by Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Invision for Liberty Mutual Insurance/AP Images)
SALT LAKE CITY » Olympic gold-medalist skier Picabo Street has been charged with assault and domestic violence after authorities say she pushed her father down the stairs in a Utah home in December.
Street told police she locked her 76-year-old father in the basement of a Park City house after pushing him and then called authorities, according to charging documents released today. She says her father, Roland Street, pulled her hair in the Dec. 23 fight at a house near Park City that police say Street’s three children witnessed.
Roland Street told police his daughter got angry and started yelling after he bumped his car into the house while trying to leave, documents show. When the two went inside the house, a physical altercation broke out.
He says his daughter grabbed him in the shoulder and neck area and pushed him down two flights of stairs. He said he may have hit his head. Police observed cuts on Roland Street’s elbow and neck.
Picabo Street, 44, was arrested and bailed out. She was charged by prosecutors about two weeks later with three counts of misdemeanor domestic violence in the presence of a child and one count of misdemeanor assault.
Her attorney, Jason Richards, said she denies any wrongdoing in what she considers a private family matter. He said Picabo Street is hopeful an “amicable resolution” can be reached.
Summit County prosecutor Ivy Telles said she’s prepared to discuss a possible plea deal to resolve the case, but that the two sides haven’t begun negotiations.
The next scheduled hearing is on Feb. 16 in a Park City court.
The highlight of Picabo Street’s illustrious skiing career came when she won a gold medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics in the women’s super-G event. She also won silver in the downhill at the 1994 Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway, and competed in the 2002 Games in Salt Lake City.
She was first American woman to win the World Cup downhill season title in 1995, and repeated as champion the next season. She totaled nine downhill victories in World Cup races during her career.
More recently, she worked as an analyst for Fox Sports during the 2014 Winter Games from Sochi, Russia.
Picabo Street lives in Park City and spends most of her time raising her three children, Richards said. She also does charity work, he said.
“She’s a stand-up person, as good as you can get,” Richards said.
10 responses to “Olympic gold medalist Picabo Street charged with assault”
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Winning a “Gold” medal did little if anything for this person! Hope I’m wrong?
“in the presence of a child” what does that have to do with it?
Legally it’s considered a more serious crime if you conduct yourself with violence in the presence of a child. Scaring a child by your violent behavior or modeling violence for impressionable children is viewed as compounding the violent behavior itself.
Maybe her dad shouldn’t be driving.
http://www.sltrib.com/news/3413939-155/picabo-street-facing-misdemeanor-charges-after
Need to hear the whole story. Maybe he deserved to be beaten up. At 76 years old you can become a complete dumbbell and a serious waste of your children’s time. Her Olympic medals have nothing to do with this and should not have been mentioned. Let the police investigation begin and don’t let the biased newspapers do that. They have a bad habit of twisting stories by stating only the facts that make people they dislike look bad. This story seems to have been published without reading the police report which takes several days to make sure it is factual. Some folks do deserve to be punched in the mouth even though it is against the law. Some people don’t have time to call 911 and need to take charge of the situation before it escalates. I believe Picabo may have been right to get physical. He almost killed her children.
Sounds like Picabo Street is really a dead end?
Olympic gold? Should have gotten a Meadow Gold.
Never fear. Republicans pardon all crimes.
Her mother should have swallowed her during the 20 seconds of fun.
Coward. Picking on a infirm.