ABC News: Unrepentant Bode: ‘Man, I Rocked Here”
Call me old fashioned, but, since when is the Olympic goal to party?
“Me, it’s been an awesome two weeks,” Miller said. “I got to party and socialize at an Olympic level.”
Bode Miller’s attitude has been discussed more than once while watching the programing. The general consensus – too bad another athlete with a competitive goal did not get the opportunity because Body filled the spot.
“As for his obligation to prepare, Miller said he was less ready for these games than the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics, where he won two silver medals.”
“I’ve been living my life as if I might have died two weeks before the Olympics started,’ he said. ‘That left me the opportunity to dig deep, to go down that other route, to make more sacrifices and get back to where I was.”
Let us not forget the great television moments that teammates Shani Davisand and Chad Hedrick provided us with as they squabbled and how Jeret Peterson finished off a night of drinking in the mountains with a street scuffle. Well it seems the U.S. Olympic Committee CEO Jim Scherr did not forget these Kodak moments either.
“We have certain expectations,” said Scherr, detailing the code of conduct for the U.S. team. “The athletes have to prepare themselves and compete to the best of their ability. And their behavior should bring honor to the United States.” . .. “It affects how the world views our country, and how the athletes are viewed,” . ..”We’ll use a number of things that happened here to point things out to other athletes. Like case studies.”
Apolo Anton Ohno – Now here is a guy who “Rocked”! and not just because he won some medals, but, because character is what sees you through.