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During training, Kinner placed 15th at the FIS GS and landed a spot in second at the Dax Brown USSA GS in Maine, inspiring Harvard to increase its hopes for the year...
...more irritating this year because U.S. coaches think they can top the long-dominant Austrians in Torino. The USSA motto - Best in the World - may sound immodest, but the team heading to Italy may well be the most talented group of skiers the U.S. has ever assembled. Miller's teammate Daron Rahlves, in fact, was sensational in winning the Lauberhorn downhill at Wengen. John McBride, the men's speed coach and a Miller confidant, acknowledges that the dustup "had been a team issue." But it's not, he adds, "like Bode's turned into...
...Similarly, Miller has his own ideas about training that have clashed with his coaches'. The USSA, like most sports federations, uses standard testing to evaluate athletes. That, says Miller, causes athletes to train for the test, not the sport. He believes that ski racing requires a different approach to fitness. "My team has been very unreceptive about the fact that I consistently show them that I train slightly differently than they do, that I consistently show them that I am in better shape for ski racing than anyone else on the team," he points out. And why wouldn...
...Andy Finch, 24; and Gretchen Bleiler, 24, who is expected to take the women's half-pipe gold in Torino--from the rest of the snowboarding world. The group, formed in 2004, is the first rider-controlled team in the sport, operating outside the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association (USSA), which oversees the U.S. national team...
...Collection picks its own coach, chooses where to compete and, most important, collects its own sponsorship dollars. Under USSA guidelines, team sponsorship money is shared with the skiers, a sore point for the boarders. "It seems like no matter how hard the snowboarders work, the money goes to the skiing side of things," says Powers, who conceived the collective concept. "The Collection gives us the freedom to pick and choose what we want to do, and the money keeps going back into the team...