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Here's the latest from Bode:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11385083/

If you don't want to win, if you really don't care if you get a medal, then why the hell don't you drop out so someone who really wants to compete and win can get a shot at the Olympics?

Why the hell is he there? I would rather that some other person is there who really wants to compete (even if he is not as good) represent my country than have some whiner who doesn't give a shit.

So screw the guy.

bode. what kind of name is bode?

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What's that expression you used a couple years ago?....

He..... "puts the asses in the seats"..... or something like that.

So the guy is not only good, but also philosophical. So the guy is not just a one-dimensional action figure. So what?

mnaz -- philosophical is fine, great. . . but that's not Bode. let's take a look here.

He said that he skiis while he is "wasted" and drunk.

He said he does not care if he wins.

He said he does not care if he does his best.

He said the medals that he previously won really don't mean anything.

He blames the media for the reason why athletes use steroids.

give me a person who really wants to compete, who respects the sport and tries to do his/her best and who isn't wasting their talent any day of the week. you can keep this knucklehead. he tried to parlay his "slacker attitude" into fame on 60 Minutes and it blew up in his face. i bet it's the media's fault he was wasted, i bet it's the media's fault that he doesn't give a shit. i bet it was the media's fault that he came off like an imbicle on 60 minutes. fuck him.

in all seriousness, tho...

remember bill johnson? i fucking loved that guy. i was 10 yrs old when we beat the fucking russians and we loved that, used it in classroom talks with teachers and friends - you can do anything you want and overconfidence kills.

but in 1984 for me it was bill johnson. i put newspaper clippings of him throughout my room. i fucking loved that guy. but he was nuts. he nearly destroyed the US ski team. he hated everyone, including himself, which he proved when he just about killed himself on the slopes a few years ago.

i bring this up to make one point: you have to be insane to slide on fiberglass at 300 miles an hour down a sheet of ice two miles in the sky. so lets just start right there.

bode miller doesnt care about medals?

BULLSHIT.

no competitor could possibly get to his level without caring about winning. what he's saying, i think, is that the personal goals are more important. of course. they HAVE to be. if someone sets out to win medals, they're going to lose. every time. you dont think about medals about 5 o'clock in the morning running all by yourself, or in the middle of a snowstorm on your cross country skis, or endless laps in the pool. you think about the next lap, the next 40 meters, the next jump, the next time trial. period.

and thats what you think about when you're at any starting line, too, regardless of where it is. you think about the first 50 meters, the first turn, your start, your breathing. and to think about those things, in all conditions, whether it's on the starting line or at 5 o'clock in the fucking morning, you need to be a competitor.

i think what he's saying is that if he doesnt medal in something, he's not going to kill himself. thats a positive way to feel.

i've never competed at that level, but my father has, and i know a few people of my generation who have as well, and i've competed at high levels in college. it's very hard to bottle the mentality of an elite athlete into something that the media or the general public can digest. when karrie strug ran on a fucked-up knee because her coach told her to, everyone thought she was being abused by an overzealous eastern european. bullshit. she did the vault because she's a competitor. when bill johnson acted like an asshole, no one, even many of his peers, thought very much of him. but they loved him on the medal stand.

so when i see shit like this and the reaction, i think:

how would YOU like to speed down an icy hill on fiberglass going 300 miles an hour two miles up in the air? athletes are not normal people. normal people cant train like that, they dont have lungs like that or brains like that. it's not just: ooh, he's CRAZY. it's so much more.

action speaks louder than words.

Blaming the media for stuff.... yeah, that's a sore spot. If I hear "the liberal media" one more time, I swear.....

But I digress. I thought his take on steroid use was the big-money-high-pressure syndrome, which the media sometimes inflame-- not the media, per se. But you've read more of Bode's mumblings than I have, so there you go....

Anyway, beyond that, one wonders how much of the other stuff is really just talk. If he's world-class, then he can't be "slacking" all that much....

the media is to blame for plenty, not the least of them being steroids. once we start getting real journalism, then we can start getting upset about people blaming the media for things.

kind of ironic that he blames the media and then uses them to help tell everyone that he doesnt give a shit about the medals that a bunch of fat drunk losers are sitting at home in america rooting for him to win. methinks he's fucking with ya.