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That means that it wasn't just the medals won at the Salt Lake Games, but the financial support that helped set these programs up for success in Torino (2006), Vancouver (2010) and beyond. The Alpine team was expected to claim more medals than it did —...
SOCHI, RUSSIA - FEBRUARY 12: Bode Miller of the USA jumps on the Lake jump during the downhill part of the men's Alpine Skiing Audi FIS World Cup Super Combined event at Rosa Khutor Mountain Resort on February 12, 2012 in Sochi, Russia. View Photo »
If it’s not fun for me, I’m not going to ski ... I’ve skied on the (new) skis and they’re not very fun to ski on. So if it’s not fun, then there’s no reason for me to do it.
Russia - With Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in the crowd, Franconia, N.H.’s Bode Miller rode a razor sharp line to finish fourth by a mere two hundredths of a second in Saturday’s Audi FIS Alpine World Cup test of the 2014 Olympic Winter Games...
The American standout said repeatedly how great the mountain is, but that organizers need to straighten out the course set. "Hopefully they'll learn how to use this terrain and make something special," Miller said. "The venue, the mountain is world class.
Indeed, the only major complaints from athletes was that the Rosa Khutor course contained too many turns to be considered a true downhill. As usual, Bode Miller led the revolt. The American standout said repeatedly how great the mountain is, but that...
Bode Miller of the United States competes during the Men's Super-Combined World Cup, on February 12, 2012 at the Rosa Khutor Mountain Resort in Krasnaya Polyana near Sochi, the 2014 Sochi Olympics alpine venue. View Photo »
Now there are some guys who were the same age as me four years ago like (American) Bode Miller. Older guys born in ‘77
Kostelic will head have a second MRI in Basel, Switzerland, on Monday and an evaluation will be made then, the team added. All of the Americans entered went out in the slalom run. Bode Miller was fourth after the downhill portion but failed to make a...
Bode Miller of the US during the men's downhill event at the World Cup Super-combined on February 12. Olympic champion Miller joined a chorus of top skiers in giving the thumbs-up to the venue that will host the alpine events at the 2014 winter Games...
Samuel Bode Miller (born October 12, 1977, in Easton, New Hampshire) is a champion alpine ski racer. Full Article
SOCHI, RUSSIA - FEBRUARY 12: Bode Miller of the USA jumps on the Lake jump during the downhill part of the men's Alpine Skiing Audi FIS World Cup Super Combined event at Rosa Khutor Mountain Resort on February 12, 2012 in Sochi, Russia.
View Photo »Bode Miller of the United States competes during the Men's Super-Combined World Cup, on February 12, 2012 at the Rosa Khutor Mountain Resort in Krasnaya Polyana near Sochi, the 2014 Sochi Olympics alpine venue.
View Photo »Bode Miller of the United States jumps during the downhill event at the Men's World Cup Super-combined on February 12, 2012 at the Rosa Khutor Mountain Resort in Krasnaya Polyana near Sochi.
View Photo »Bode Miller, of the United States, speeds down the course during the downhill portion of an alpine ski, men's World Cup supercombined, in Krasnaya Polyana near Sochi, Russia, Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012.
View Photo »Bode Miller of the U.S. speeds down in the men's Alpine Skiing World Cup Downhill race in Rosa Khutor near Sochi February 11, 2012. The Rosa Khutor Alpine Resort is hosting men's and women's downhill and super combined Alpine Skiing World Cup races over the next two weekends in...
View Photo »SOCHI, RUSSIA - FEBRUARY 11: Bode Miller of USA in action during the Men's Downhill at the Audi FIS World Cup on February 11, at Rosa Khutor Mountain Resort in Sochi, Russia.
View Photo »Bode Miller of the USA speeds down the course during the men's alpine skiing World Cup downhill race in Krasnaya Polyana, some 50km from Sochi, Russia, Feb. 11, 2012.
View Photo »Bode Miller of the United States competes during the Men's World Cup Downhill World Cup, on February 11, 2012 at the Rosa Khutor Mountain Resort in Krasnaya Polyana near Sochi, on the course to be used for the men's alpine events at the 2014 Sochi Olympics. He finished fourth.
View Photo »Bode Miller, of the United States, speeds down the course during an alpine ski, men's World Cup downhill on the course for the 2014 Sochi Olympics, in Krasnaya Polyana near Sochi, Russia, Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012.
View Photo »Bode Miller of the US skies down during the third Training of the World Cup Men's Downhill on February 10, 2012 at the Rosa Khutor Mountain Resort in Krasnaya Polyana near Sochi, city hosting Winter Olympic games in 2014.
View Photo »Bode Miller of United States takes part on February 10, 2012 in the third training for the men's World Cup downhill event at the Rosa Khutor Mountain Resort in Krasnaya Polyana near Sochi, city hosting Winter Olympic games in 2014.
View Photo »Bode Miller, of the United States, takes a jump as he speeds down the course during training for an alpine ski, men's World Cup downhill, in Sochi, Russia, Friday, Feb. 10, 2012.
View Photo »SOCHI, RUSSIA - FEBRUARY 09: Bode Miller of the USA during the Audi FIS Alpine Ski World Cup Men's Downhill Training on February 09, 2012 in Sochi, Russia.
View Photo »Bode Miller of USA skies during the 2nd training of the Men's World Cup Downhill on February 9, 2012 at the Rosa Khutor Mountain Resort in Krasnaya Polyana near Sochi. Poor visibility at the venue which will host the 2014 Olympics forced the cancellation of a second training session for...
View Photo »Bode Miller of the US skis over the 'Bear's brow' jump during the second training at the men's World Cup downhill evnt eon February 9, 2012 at the Rosa Khutor mountain resort in Krasnaya Polyana, near Sochi. Poor visibility at the venue, which will host the 2014 Winter Olympics forced...
View Photo »Bode Miller of the U.S. speeds down in the second practice for the men's Alpine Skiing World Cup Downhill race in Rosa Khutor near Sochi February 9, 2012.
View Photo »United States' Bode Miller speeds down the Rosa Khutor slope on the 2014 Sochi Olympic course during a Men's World Cup downhill training session in Sochi, Russia, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012.
View Photo »United States' Bode Miller speaks at a press conference after a Men's World Cup downhill training session in Sochi, Russia, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012, at the Rosa Khutor slope site of the 2014 Sochi Olympic course.
View Photo »Bode Miller of the US skis past during the first training of the Men's World Cup Downhill on February 8, 2012 in the Rosa Khutor Mountain Resort near Sochi. This Alpine world cup is a test event for the Winter Olympics Games to be held in 2014 in Sochi.
View Photo »Bode Miller of the U.S. clears the "Russian Trampoline" jump during the first practice run for the men's Alpine Skiing World Cup Downhill race in Rosa Khutor, near Sochi, February 8, 2012.
View Photo »Bode Miller of the US speeds down during the Men's downhill practice race at the FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup on in Rosa Khutor alpine ski resort on February 8, 2012 near Sochi. This race is a test event for the Sochi 2014 Winter Olypimpics.
View Photo »United States's Bode Miller is airborne as he speeds down the course during a Men's World Cup downhill training session in Sochi, Russia, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012.
View Photo »CHAMONIX, FRANCE - FEBRUARY 05: Bode Miller of the USA during the Audi FIS Alpine Ski World Cup Men's Super Combined on February 5, 2012 in Chamonix, France.
View Photo »US Bode Miller reacts as he crosses the finish line at the end of his Kandahar Men's Super Combined Downhill race during the FIS Alpine World Cup on February 5, 2012 in Les Houches, French Alps.
View Photo »Bode Miller, of the United States, takes a jump during the downhill portion of an alpine ski, men's World Cup super-combined, in Chamonix, France, Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012.
View Photo »SOCHI, RUSSIA - FEBRUARY 12: Bode Miller of the USA jumps on the Lake jump during the downhill part of the men's Alpine Skiing Audi FIS World Cup Super Combined event at Rosa Khutor Mountain Resort on February 12, 2012 in Sochi, Russia.
View Photo »If it’s not fun for me, I’m not going to ski ... I’ve skied on the (new) skis and they’re not very fun to ski on. So if it’s not fun, then there’s no reason for me to do it.
Now there are some guys who were the same age as me four years ago like (American) Bode Miller. Older guys born in ‘77
Then they pump my tires or the athletes' tires or the tires of the whole organization for setting that up and admiring how well that worked and how awesome and smooth (the GS rule changes are) and, all of a sudden, everything seems disarmed
I think it's an old traditional tactic of downplaying an opponent or in a negotiation scheme is to give them a little bit of power, which is what they're doing with us, giving us athlete reps
It's not the ability that's lacking. We've skied with the best teams out there ... We're competitive with any of them, so it's just a matter of if the guys can get it through their heads to race that way and then perform on race day.
The hill here is cool. It's great to be able to stay here in the U.S., and for us it's good because it's early season and we're still trying to get our testing and all of our training dialed in ... So to go over to France where there's such limited snow would have posed an added challenge to test the st...
They pumped my tires ... They admired how well it worked (Tuesday) and how awesome and smooth everything is. All of a sudden, everything seems disarmed.
I ski because I like to ski a certain way
