patentcad

Bode Miller is a moron. And he may regret his lack of focus and cavalier attitude about Torino when he's a 35 year old widely known as 'Bode WHO?'.

The most difficult part of this to handle is the fact that this idiot is making MILLIONS (reportedly $5 million annually from current endorsement deals) for being a dickhead just because he wins ski races. But not the BIG ones I suppose. He was too hung over for that. Oh well.

Maybe Nike will think twice about giving a lunkhead like Bode a website like 'joinbode.com' when the only thing Bode wants to join is the boys doing shots @ the bar - the night before his big Super GS Race.

And people give LANCE ****? That's mind blowing to me.

mr. peugeot

I'd just like to ask Barry Bonds what kind of exercise machine it is that makes your head bigger.

croshaven

Miller's comments really pissed me off. I watched him during the Olympics just to see him fail. Schadenfreude!

jimbud

I'm not quite sure you have to tell anybody here what there problem is with Miller. Maybe you should ask Nike or U.S. Ski Team officals if they were happy with Miller's "I don't give a crap" attitude. The problem Miller creates for the U.S. Olympic program is supporters who have donated money to the Olympic Team in the past are less likely to do so again if they know one of there top skiers is going to the games with the idea it's a 2 week long party followed by living high off the indorsment deals he signed before the games.
Nike was upset with Miller to the point that they asked NBC not to continually run the Tom Brokaw intereview with Miller after his event on Sat.

AndyGrow

No, he's just an a$$wipe skiier that needs to STFU.

shokhead

I've never have read anything that lumped LA and Bonds together. Bonds is just a jacka$$ Bode a mouth. Lots of ink for doing nothing.

jmd471

He said what he though. He didnt tell the media to hype him up as a prospect for the olympics, they did that on their own. The guy has talent, if he chooses to not use it to its full extent thats his decision. They rammed him down everyones throat, now they have to act like they knew bode would flop, and blame it on him being reckless...because everyone knows the media is never wrong.

Chicocreole

Did anyone measure Barry's hat size, face structure changes as you get older. I lift weights and have never used a steroid in my life but my face is alot bigger and mature now at 27 then it was at 17.

Barry is 40+ years old now he might look a little different than he did on a 1987 topps baseball card.

I'm not a Barry Bonds fan but I respect his homerun numbers alot more than the Babes because he's playing against the best competition the world has to offer - who may also be shooting up.

Babe Ruth didn't even play against the best players his "country" had to offer, you should put an * near his numbers for that.

DrPete 

You clearly don't understand EPO, my friend. EPO is a hormone that stimulates red blood cell production, which I figure you know. The body also makes its own EPO in the kidney, which makes it very easy to develop a test that will pop up positive for EPO even though an athlete wasn't taking any. The bone marrow gets suppressed during certain types of chemotherapy, so in order to maintain a NORMAL (not doped) hematocrit, i.e. red blood cell concentration in the blood, patients will get EPO.

EPO, like any other hormone in the body, is degraded and cleared. So your statement that Lance getting EPO during his cancer treatment had ANYTHING to do with winning 7 tours is quite ignorant. It just doesn't work that way.

DrPete

kingofchimps

Ever hear of the World Cup? Kinda of a big deal in ski racing.

Guess who won overall last year...

kingofchimps

+1

jkoman

I don't profess to know if LA is guilty or innocent but this argument sometimes grates on me...OJ was never convicted either

TNoodles

I think my wife put it best when she said: Win the gold medal first, then shoot your mouth off.

C4Byke

Well, considering the fact that my place of previous employment was head IV tech at a large privately owned elder-care facility, I do know a little about erythropoiten treatments. You missunderstood my point; that particular quote of mine that you pulled up from 2 months ago was meant more towards the 'where there's smoke there's fire' argument. I just found it interesting that before cancer and epo lance could barely finish the Tour, and after he got a taste of what epo can do for you, cardiovascularly, I think he got hooked. Then his teammates all get really good too. Then he retires. Then all of his teammates start getting busted for epo. And you calling my opinion ingorant when you can't back up your own with facts, is well, ignorant. Good day DOCTOR.

shokhead

LA could barely finish the tour. Oh! OK.

bbattle

Bode "who?"

DrPete 

I'm not quite sure what opinion I stated that I didn't back up with factual information, but that's neither here nor there. If you want I can send you the references from any number of physiology texts that explain how EPO works in the human body, as well as the factors that can influence the indirect testing that's now done to determine who used EPO.

All I was saying was that 1. the jury is still out on the best/most accurate test for EPO, and 2. Making the leap from getting EPO to survive cancer chemo to using it illegally to win 7 tours is a pretty big one.

I don't know what the "good day DOCTOR" thing is all about--I guess that part's just from being a prick.

DrPete

1fluffhead

Bode Miller 0 for 5 and another Nike flop. I am wondering if the pre-Olympics hype from Nike for certain athletes is actually a jinx. Anyone else remember Dan and Dave?

Chicocreole

At least Bode made the Olympics

lala

Nope, it doesn't bother me in the least. I don't wish him ill or glory in his race finishes.
Methinks some people watch too many ads and listen the the commentators too much!

DrPete 

It's so frustrating to watch sometimes--I feel like Nike feeds the idea that the American athletes they support are somehow bigger contenders on the international stage than they really are.

Why doesn't Nike sign a big deal with Hermann Maier or the whole Austrian ski team? Maier especially is a real story of courage, dedication and passion on an almost Lance-type scale. The guy almost lost his leg and is back on the mountain winning medals.

It's frustrating to watch the US athletes at the olympics. From the girl who lost a gold medal showboating on her snowboard to the female skier who wore her beads down the mountain and shook her butt at the bottom having posted a mediocre time. It just perpetuates the world's already negative view of us and our athletes. It would be so refreshing to see more athletes like Apollo Anton Ohno who just go out there and perform, humbly and without drama. Instead we get headlines about Bode being an ass. What a shame.

DrPete

Stubacca

That's how I saw it, too. He's a guy who loves skiing, and is happy if he wins, and happy if he doesn't. I saw a bunch of interviews with him, and I don't remember him ever saying he was going to win five gold medals. He said he was capable of winning gold medals, and that he'd go out there and do the best he could. The media and some useless NBC commentators decided he was going to win 5 gold medals. Just like they decided Michael Phelps was going to win 7, and everyone was so disappointed with him when he 'only' won 5.

The US media has hyped Miller up, and has put far too much importance on winning a gold medal at the olympics. He finished overall first in the world cup, in a sport where favourites can finish last due to the tiniest of mistakes.

Stop listening to the commentators and the media so much.

Chicocreole

I think the press was pretty easy on these guys - I would of loved to see the type of reaction the US Basketball team would of got if they went on like a bunch of Arseholes like the ski team or performed as bad as the hockey team.

At least Lebron and Iverson were ashamed by their performances this Bode dummy doesn't even care!

bbattle

The media doesn't focus on the vast majority of athletes who compete and don't make @sses of themselves and the U.S. media is going to focus on the U.S. athletes. And since the U.S. media is getting paid to put up some big ratings for their advertisers, they go after what they think will lure the most watchers.

U.S. athletes do not have a monopoly on being bad sports, whiners, or arrogant.

I get tired of the endless showboating on the football field after a routine tackle, much less when somebody scores a touchdown.

Chicocreole

I don't get that one either NBA'ers show a little emotion and get T'd up and killed by the media but Football players seem to celebrate tying their shoes - and get a free pass unless your a total arse like TO.

Makes me appreciate Hincappie, Barry Sanders, Roger Federer and Kevin Garnett so much more - classy on and off the field.