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Bode calling it quits before the 2010 Olympics?
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Ski racer Bode Miller, the prickly iconoclast more infamous for his Olympic failures than famous for his historic two World Cup overall titles, said in an interview with universalsports.com today he would probably retire before the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver.
The Games begin one year from tomorrow (Feb. 12).
Miller, who won two 2002 Olympic silver medals but no medals in 2006, said in an interview from the world championships in France that “…knowing skiing and knowing the people and the organizations that are in place, I don't see anything conspiring on the horizon to make me believe it wouldn't be something negative and unproductive for myself and the sport and the Olympics."
Miller has trained separately from the U.S. team since 2007 but has raced as an American. and was criticized during the 2006 Torino Games for appearing more successful on the party circuit than on the ski hill. That's where he famously said that he "got to party and socialize at an Olympic level," earning him scorn from fans and media and causing embarrassment for the U.S. Olympic Committee and sponsor Nike, which had built a pre-Olympic marketing campaign around the slogan "Join Bode." (To which Washington Post columnist Sally Jenkins responded "Where? At the bar?")
He is one of only five men in history to win World Cup races in all five disciplines. His contrary nature, from how he trains to loose-cannon interviews, drew attention to him and the sport, as in 2006, when he told "60 Minutes" that he had ski-raced while "wasted."
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