He is the all-time American leader in World Cup wins with 32. At the 2002 Salt Lake Games he won double silver, but failed to medal four years ago in Turin, leaving Italy as a skiing scourge.
Miller went 0 for 5 at the 2006 Turin Games, a performance that was viewed from the outside as a spectacular failure. Not only did Bode leave Turin without an Olympic medal, he concluded the games with a serious image problem because he was frequently photographed bar-hopping late into the night, hours before he had to race
Yet Miller seems to have entered the Vancouver Games with a renewed attitude after rejoining the U.S. Ski Team in September. He is scheduled to race all five disciplines in Whistler.
"One of the reasons I came back this season, and one of the things that's most important to me about skiing, about my legacy, if I would call it that, that I leave behind, is racing for the pure adrenaline of racing fast. And not getting too tangled up in the results and the outcomes. Obviously, you always want to win, but you want to win by skiing a race that you're proud of.""I think that's particularly important in the big events, in moments where you're really tested, where everyone has their expectations on you and everyone has their idea of what you should and shouldn't be doing. At that point it's really important to exercise your right as an individual, and the right that you've earned by training your whole life, and execute the plan that you want to do rather than what you think everyone else tells you to do."
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