On a pair of skis, no one in the world is more dazzling to watch.

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“Bode Miller, the most gifted American skier in decades…”

~Newsweek

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Defining Moment:

There's no doubt that Miller's two silver medal performance at the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City was his coming out party, but his 2005 overall World Cup victory qualifies as his defining moment, propelling him to the top of the skiing world.

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Bode confident despite missing medal again

‘I could be sitting on 4 medals,’ Miller says after taking 6th in giant slalom

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“And before he got on the plane, he told anyone who would listen that he was going to show us something about sports and sportsmanship. Instead, we saw a perfect embodiment of the tarnished Olympics that he claims to despise. Most people who have watched these Olympics will come away from them thinking much as they always have about sports, and thinking much less of Bode Miller. Which means that, by Bode’s own standard, he blew it.”

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SESTRIERE, Italy - Bode Miller was rehabbing his ankle Wednesday after twisting it while playing basketball with teammates but is expected to race the Olympic slalom, his fifth and final chance at a Turin Games medal.

~MSNBC

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America’s skiing cover boy Bode Miller has been a bust at these Olympics--and medals don’t have anything to do with it.

~ Newsweek

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“He’s partied harder than he’s skied. He’s flipped off photographers and blown off reporters. He’s been disqualified from two races, once so clumsily that it was hard to believe he was even trying. Even when he’s skied well here, he’s looked winded at the end of races he used to blast through. And in the latest dose of bad news, he rolled an ankle during a Tuesday game of pick-up basketball with teammates, jeopardizing his attendance on Saturday. Miller’s coach and his agent both say he will race, but the injury, however minor, makes a medal for him even more unlikely. It was already unlikely enough.”

~Newsweek

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Bode's horrible Olympics continue in super-G

Miller fails to medal in 3rd event; Norway's Aamodt wins gold for third time

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The much-hyped Miller, meanwhile, slammed into a gate and failed to finish, dropping to 0-for-3 at the Turin Olympics, then skied through the woods and avoided reporters.

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His record so far, though: fifth in the downhill, disqualified in the combined for straddling a gate, “Did Not Finish” Saturday. He has drawn more attention for his bar-hopping than his skiing.

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Unprepared Bode blows chances at greatness

Controversial U.S. skier has only one more shot at Olympic medal

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SESTRIERE, Italy - It wasn’t the beer before the downhill, his hell-bent-for-leather style in the combined slalom, his DNF in the super-G or his first-run struggles in the giant slalom that did in Bode Miller. It was all the beers in all the months leading up to the Olympics and all the years of living his life as recklessly as he skis his races.

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Asked the secret to his success, Aamodt spoke

words that Miller, 28, and all manner of other

younger skiers might want to jot down.

“Spend a lot of time on the hill, spend time training, and then, if you work hard over a long period of time, with a lot of focus, good things will happen to you in the end,” Aamodt said.

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It takes years of training and dedication to win an Olympic gold medal. It doesn’t take nearly as many years of taking yourself and your talent for granted to lose it.

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They work as hard as they play not because they love work — most of them don’t like it any more than the rest of us do — but because they want to win, and if that’s what it takes, that’s what they do.

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Philippians 2:12 (NIV)

Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed—not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence—continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling

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define: FEAR

1.1. be afraidbe afraid or feel anxious or apprehensive about a possible or probable situation or event.

2.2. be sorrybe sorry; used to introduce an unpleasant statement; "I fear I won't make it to your party."

3.3. reverencereverence: regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of.

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Philippians 2:12 (NIV)

Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed—not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence—continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling

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Philippians 2:12 (NLT)

Dearest friends, you were always so careful to follow my instructions when I was with you. And now that I am away you must be even more careful to put into action God’s saving work in your lives, obeying God with deep reverence and fear.

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