You Don't Know Bode

Newsweek, January, 2006 by Devin Gordon

Bode Miller, the most gifted American skier in decades, talks the same way he races: fast, loose and seemingly out of control. He has a smirking disrespect for the media, a stance he'll repeat until your recorder runs out of tape. As far as he's concerned, the only stupid questions from reporters are the ones that end in question marks. But he'll answer anything-- anything --and the moment he opens his mouth, he's an ink-spiller's fantasy. He's funny, he's incisive, he's foulmouthed and combative, and he's stubbornly, refreshingly honest. Sometimes too honest. Miller caused a furor on Jan. 8 when he went on CBS's "60 Minutes" and implied that he once skied a World Cup event while drunk--or at least extremely hung over--which is nearly as stupid a thing to say as it is to do. His...

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