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Bode Miller may be the most popular American in Europe. Granted, that's not a crowded competition. But on the hotly contested World Cup Alpine-skiing circuit, the laid-back Miller is a one-man diplomatic mission, even as he routinely beats the schuss out of Europe's best skiers. Endowed with boyish good looks, an easygoing manner and a breathtaking style, Miller has won a huge fan following in ski-mad Europe. From Alta Badia, Italy, to Schladming, Austria, the man has serious teen appeal. BODE YOU ARE SO SEXY! read banners at a recent event in Austria, where...
...first competition of the 2005 season, the Harvard Nordic and alpine ski teams took 10th of 13 teams at the St. Michael’s Winter Carnival in Huntington, Vt., this weekend with a score...
...thing restraining an individual or faction elected on the UIA list from crossing the floor to side with Allawi is the prospect of facing the electorate again at some point in the future - assuming, of course, that in Iraq's next election, the candidates won't be campaigning in ski masks. (The identity of the vast majority of those standing in Sunday's election was kept secret for security reasons...
...year, again, he started faster than the rest. Miller won six of the first 10 races of the season, and he did so in all four disciplines, from the highly technical slalom event to the nail-biting, death-defying downhill. The last time anyone did that was Marc Girardelli, skiing for Luxembourg in 1988. But Girardelli needed 71 days to accomplish the feat. Miller, characteristically, took just 16. "I find my groove pretty quickly," Miller concedes with a shrug. He had just finished a day of downhill training and a late-night volleyball game to top it off. "Four...
...often seems to be hurling himself rather than skiing down the mountain. "It's not exactly ski-instructor style," Miller admits. When showing training videos of his top racer to other team members, in fact, McNichol will cover the unwieldy upper half of Miller's body to show that his feet are still, usually, properly balanced over his skis. And overall this season, especially in the high-speed, less technical events, Miller is staying on course and in control. Coaches credit his talent for recovering from hopeless situations. Miller has always been what some commentators call a "recovery artist...