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When Olympic gold-medalist skier Picabo Street called 911 from her Park City home on Dec. 23, she claimed her father had attacked her during a fight that was sparked after he bumped his car into her house during a snowstorm.
But prosecutors believe it was the 44-year-old woman who was the aggressor in the situation, which led them to charge her with assault and domestic violence in front of a child.
"My father just tried to attack me in my own house in front of my own children," Street tells a dispatcher during the Dec. 23 call.
But a woman speaking in the background — who Street refers to as "Mom" — quickly rebutted the woman's story, telling her, "You attacked him!"
Street goes on to tell the dispatcher that her 76-year-old father, Roland Street, accidentally drove his car against her home after she had spent an hour trying to clear the driveway during a snowstorm so her parents could leave for their home in Ogden.
"I put him down the stairs," Picabo Street tells the dispatcher. "I don't know what he's doing."
"What do you mean you put him down the stairs?" the dispatcher asks.
"I put him down the stairs," Picabo Street repeats. "He got his hands on me and I put him down the stairs."
Later in the call, Picabo Street and the other woman in the home argue about what had happened.
"You've got to be kidding me, Mom," Picabo Street says. "Look what he did to my hair."
"I'm not kidding you at all," the woman replies. "I saw what you did to him."
Picabo Street also claims during the call that her father slapped her in the face.
Roland Street later told police that his daughter grabbed his shoulder and neck and pushed him down the stairs, according to a Summit County Sheriff's Office report. The man said he fell down two flights of stairs and may have hit his head. The daughter later told police that she locked her father in the basement.
While Picabo Street claimed she was attacked, Deputy Summit County Attorney Ivy Telles said his office believes she was actually the primary aggressor. Telles said she does not plan to file charges against the father.
"I don't have enough to charge him as he was not the primary aggressor," she said Thursday.
Picabo Street was arrested that night and bailed out of the Summit County Jail.
She was charged the next day with assault and three counts of domestic violence in front of a child, all class B misdemeanors. Each count carries a maximum penalty of six months in jail.
She is scheduled to be in court on Feb. 16 for a pretrial conference. Her attorney, Jason Richards, told The Associated Press that his client denies wrongdoing in what she considers a private family matter. She is hoping to find an "amicable resolution" to the case, Richards said.
Picabo Street, a part-time Park City resident, won a gold medal in Nagano in 1998 and was a Fox Sports analyst for the 2014 Olympic Games.
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