Pretty good. Worth a watch.
I know nothing about this sport and never really watch it. Of course you may see a few seconds during an Olympic then watch something else. The danger involved here is too much. I don't like such sports. So the tension was a bit too high as you KNOW they will show all the crashes and injuries as they do in ALL such docs. You get the most important parts of the career which involves injuries. But luckily it stays overall upbeat. The cool music and relaxed interview setting makes this a fun watch that I enjoyed quite a bit.
Lindsey Vonn interviews Picabo and we see great recordings from her career where she won silver and gold in the Olympics until the crashes made her unable to compete on this level and she ended up just making it down the hill in her last Olympic ever in Salt Lake City. Usually these type of docs about female athletes can get a bit too fake with "she had to fight her way to the top as boys/men didn't believe she could do it". Luckily the doc stays out of any such fake storylines and tries to instead be a basic overview of her career. There are some topics like her initial fight with boys, her huge ski fights vs. Europeans, and how she came out of nothing and made it. But it's kept light and not Americanized to extremes. Overall the themes she fights against is her leg injuries and then her diabetic dad who often didn't take care of his condition and got aggressive with Picabo and her mom. Even injuring her mom very seriously at times. And Picabo post her career pushed him down her stairs after he attacked her which made her lose her sponsor deals. Again unfair as he was the one who attacked her and she was just defending herself nothing more. But as she was keeping his condition and aggression hidden from the public once the story came out it made her seem like the aggressor. It makes sense as she was basically lying to the public for years about her parents and no one knew her dad was this way. Besides this the doc is a basic overview. Not really focused on her friendships or stupidities as she is being interviewed in it so clearly they wanted to hide away all drama. They vaguely refer to her being kicked off team USA as a teenager for being "a rebel". But they refuse to ever explain why she was kicked off the team or how her personality ruined anything else in her life. She's just "a rebel". But you can be right or wrong. You may be a good rebel or a bad rebel. We never find out if she was right or wrong. We just know something happened to her because of her personality. I assume the coaches were overall fair? But maybe not.
