Bode Miller just won his first gold medal, and when he did, the crowd erupted. Now Miller has five Olympic medals, and one in each color.
Miller trailed the dh portion of the super combined by .74 seconds off leader Aksel Svindal, and was positioned seventh. Several threats were ahead of him including Ivica Kostelic and Silvan Zubriggen.
Your stomach always sinks when Miller get in the gate, because you never know what’s going to happen. Today was no different. With time to make up it was easy to predict that Miller would be attacking the slalom. He smoked the top section of the course and ended the slalom in the lead. Miller’s slalom was third fastest – teammate Ted Ligety won the run.
The flower ceremony just took place and I have never see so many smiles from Miller. After getting bronze in the downhill he said he was approaching these Olympic differently. He was trying to feed off the energy and excitement and get back to the purity of skiing. Since then he’s won two more medals.
If there’s ever been a time that you could say it’s “Miller time” – it’s now.
Headed to the press conference.

Tags: alpine, Bode Miller, gold

This entry was posted on Sunday, February 21st, 2010 at 4:29 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.