Here's your post-Torino synopsis of the Bodester's Olympic achievements:
Men's Downhill - 5th
Men's Combined - DQ
Men's Super G - DNF
Men's Giant Slalmo - 6th
Men's Slalom - DNF
No elaboration is necessary, aside from Miller himself:
"I just did it my way. I'm not a martyr, and I'm not a do-gooder. I just want to go out and rock. And man, I rocked here," Miller said in an exclusive interview with The Associated Press soon after he skidded off the slalom course in his fifth and final race, completing an 0-for-the-Olympics.
Miller came to the Italian Alps cresting on a wave of expectations and was considered a medal threat in every Alpine event. But he failed to finish three of them and his best showing was fifth in the downhill - part of a games with few highlights for the U.S. Ski Team.
"The expectations were other people's," Miller said. "I'm comfortable with what I've accomplished, including at the Olympics. I came in here to race as hard as I could. That was my obligation to myself.
Later, in the same interview, this is what the guy who once wanted to be remembered as an example of how to be an athletic nonconformist had to say:
Me, it's been an awesome two weeks," Miller said. "I got to party and socialize at an Olympic level."
This should provode ample consolation when Nike drops his contract like a flaming turd.
He compared his Olympic experience to fellow American Daron Rahlves, who was a favorite in the downhill and a contender in the super-G but didn't come close to the podium.
"Look at what happened to Rahlves. He was holed up in his RV, he's probably the fittest guy out here and he made a point of talking about how important the Olympics were to him," Miller said. "And then look - a little bad luck and he's got nothing to show for the whole thing.
I keep waiting for Rahlves' interview, where he bitches about the unfair expectations heaped upon him by the likes of Sports Illustrated and Time magazine, yet he's been strangely silent.
I was also fond of this statement:
“The same people who recognize I came out with no medals should recognize I could have won three."
Bra-vo, Mr. Miller. Luckily, we have the likes of Apolo Ohno, Chad Hedrick, Shani Davis, Joey Cheek, Shaun White, Seth Westcott, Hannah Teter, Julia Mancuso, and Ted Ligety to recognize.
If nothing else, maybe the major weeklies won't be so eager to anoint a new Olympic savior when 2010 rolls around.
You know what? Basshole had just as many olympic medals as Bodie and is far more a rebel....Hell, he even made the conscious decision to not even go to Torino to party. I think he rocked the Olympics more than Bode could even dream of. Squid too. The Olympics were almost as unimportant to them as they were to Bode. Bode's not a rebel...just a pompous bitch.
Bode and his tired X Gamer act will now be retired to the same corner of D list "celebrity" hell as his soul mate Paulie Shore.
This guy can't Sonny Bono fast enough.
(That was sarcasm, for anyone thinking I am actually wishing death on someone.)
Pete, I hate to be the one to break
it to you.
Okay, I screwed that up. Brace yourself. Kolchak is no more.
Who cares?
Almost three years hosting this blog and he can still find incredulity at what I choose to get annoyed with.
You know what? Basshole had just as many olympic medals as Bodie and is far more a rebel
I have it on good authority that Basshole and Squid have been named co-captains of the 2010 U.S. ski team.
I can't wait to see Mike and Al in the skin tight ski outfits....delectable...mmmmmmm
Who cares?
Almost three years hosting this blog and he can still find incredulity at what I choose to get annoyed with.
I can't figure out why Newsweek cares, much less you.
I wouldn't bet on that last part, Pete. I have a feeling we will have our fair share of pre-annointed Olympic saviors before the 2010 games.
All the quotes you need for anything in life can be found in "Ghostbusters", to whit:
"What an Asshole"!
Not that I'm the ideal person to be asking if the Olympics are all that important in a post-cold war cable TV world, but I'm asking. Who cares? It's not like we can compete against the Jihadi National Team and conflate victory in skiing with National Merit or Penis Length.