Twice World Cup overall champion Bode Miller has announced his return to the United States ski team in one last bid for Olympic gold.
Miller, who after a
“I’ve had some great seasons. I’ve had some great runs here and there but I’ve never… in hindsight looked back at a season and said, ‘Wow, I really did all the stuff I could do’,” Miller said.
“This is an opportunity for me to have all the best runs of my life, a season where I really, really can kill it.”
Miller’s return to the US squad began with a call to the head coach of the men’s Alpine team Sasha Rearick.
The 31-
“We’ve worked hard over the last years to come together as a tight family,” said Rearick. “To have Bode come back to the family is extremely exciting for us.
“I’m looking forward to having Bode step up as a leader.”
One of skiing’s most charismatic and talented racers, Miller’s reckless
He has never found the same success on the Olympic stage, three Winter Games producing just two silver medals in 2002 from Salt Lake City while he failed to reach the podium in five events four years later in Turin.
Miller, who said he was not in top racing form, will start working with the team immediately as it prepares for the upcoming World Cup season which begins next month in Solden, Austria.
Miller declined to specify any regrets he might have had from the 2006 Turin Games where he at the time brushed off his lack of medals by saying at least he got to party Olympic style.
“My actions are going to speak much more loudly than any apology can,” said Miller.
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