Word: skying
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Miller is the triple-threat leader of a U.S. ski team that is crucial to the U.S. Olympic Committee's goal of winning a record 20 medals in these Games. (The tally from Nagano in 1998: 13.) In freestyle skiing's mogul and aerial events--bumps and jumps--wild man Jonny Moseley and the meticulous Eric Bergoust will be defending their respective titles. The mogul team is impressively deep. The women's bumpers, led by Hannah Hardaway and Shannon Bahrke, could sweep, or be swept, in an amazingly talented field led by Norway's Kari Traa. Overall, nothing less than...
...learned how to better manage that tiny margin of error that separates world beaters from snow eaters. "He doesn't have to go all out every run," explains Tommy Moe, who won the downhill in 1994. "When you get that confident, it's really easy to ski fast...
That fame comes as no surprise to the people who have followed Miller. By the time he got to Carrabbassett Valley Academy (C.V.A.), a ski-racer prep school, his athleticism was evident but his style was wildly unorthodox...
That ability was so exceptional that the ski coach didn't try to change his wild-man style. "He would look out of control, but a lot of this was by design," says John Ritzo, C.V.A.'s headmaster. "He had the athletic ability to get away with it. Most people couldn't recover from positions that he got into...
Miller says he has got a grip on other variables in skiing as well. "It's not about controlling aggression; it's about getting everything else in the right line," he explains, meaning things like equipment, fitness (he blew out a knee last season) and start position--the higher the better, and the better you ski, the higher the start position you get. "There are people who can make a mistake and stay on the course and finish 15th," he says. Why bother? "For me and a lot of the other top guys, we don't make those kinds...