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Samuel Bode Miller, né le 12 octobre 1977 à Easton dans le New Hampshire, est un skieur alpin américain. Vainqueur du classement général de la Coupe du monde en 2005 et 2008, il a aussi remporté le titre olympique de combiné en 2010 ainsi qu'un total de quatre titres aux championnats du monde de 2003 et 2005. En remportant à 36 ans et 4 mois la médaille de bronze du super-G des Jeux olympiques de Sotchi, il devient le plus vieux médaillé olympique de l'histoire en ski alpin. Il est un des rares skieurs à s'être imposé dans les cinq disciplines en Coupe du monde avec Marc Girardelli, Pirmin Zurbriggen, Kjetil-André Aamodt et Gunther Mader. Champion du monde dans quatre disciplines différentes, détenteur de huit globes de cristal , Miller a également établi le record de victoires d'un Américain en Coupe du monde avec 33 succès.

Skieur atypique tant sur les pistes — avec une prise de risque maximum et un style à part, tout en élasticité, avec notamment une position très arrière sur les skis— qu'en dehors, avec son mode de vie non conventionnel, il s'est entouré d'une équipe d'entraîneurs et de techniciens appelée la « Bode Team America », loin de la fédération américaine, se déplaçant en camping-car entre les courses tout en étant auteur de déclarations controversées sur son hygiène de vie, ses relations avec les instances et sa position sur le dopage. Bode Miller s'est donc démarqué de ses pairs suscitant alternativement admiration et critique de la part des observateurs.

Le 31 octobre 2017, il annonce à 40 ans qu'il arrête définitivement sa carrière de skieur. Wikipedia  

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“For me the ideal Olympics would be to go in with all that pressure, all that attention and have performances that are literally tear-jerking, that make people put their heads down because they’re embarrassed at how emotional they’re getting, that make people want to try sports, talk to their kids, call their f---ing ex-wives—and come away with no medals. I think that would be epic. That would be the perfect thing.”

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Interview with Newsweek, Nov. 2005, pub. 23 Feb. 2006 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11522274/

“Sport is born clean and it would stay that way if it was the athletes who ran it for the pleasure of taking part, but then the fans and the media intervene and finish up by corrupting it with the pressure that they exercise.”

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Interview with Gazzetta dello Sport, 16 Feb. 2006 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11385083/

“You basically have to trick yourself into incredible intensity to do this stuff, and I do a good job of pretending that I’m racing to save my mom from getting killed or my sister from being raped—some horrible thing that causes me to dig deep, like old-school ‘Braveheart’ s---. If you come into battle with that in your head, you’re gonna be a different person than if you think you’re just going out for a little swordfight. But when you do that for 10 years straight, it wears your a-- out. It’s like crying wolf to yourself a million times. And at some point, you start to say, ‘Why am I doing this?”

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Interview with Newsweek, Nov. 2005, pub. 23 Feb. 2006 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11522274/

“This year I just want to enjoy myself. I could give up tomorrow without having the slightest regret. I could keep away from this world for a year and then perhaps start to feel the desire to prove something to myself again.”

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Interview with Gazzetta dello Sport, 16 Feb. 2006 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11385083/

“Fame is almost a poison. I couldn’t care less, in fact I lived better when I was a nobody.”

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Interview with Gazzetta dello Sport, 16 Feb. 2006 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11385083/

“It is other people who want me to win medals.”

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Interview with Gazzetta dello Sport, 16 Feb. 2006 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11385083/

“From this inhuman pressure doping is born because the athlete feels the imperative of having to be No. 1. I believe instead that sport should be a private pressure, a challenge for yourself.”

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Interview with Gazzetta dello Sport, 16 Feb. 2006 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11385083/

“The silver medals I won in Salt Lake City didn’t give me anything. Last year I set myself the goal of winning the World Cup and lining up a long series of wins. It was my private challenge.”

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Interview with Gazzetta dello Sport, 16 Feb. 2006 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11385083/

“I never know what to make of Bode Miller because he is crazy. I'm serious. He is so hard to understand. But I know this: When he is on, he is the perfect skier.”

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Austrian skier Benjamin Raich at 2010 Olympics http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/22/sports/olympics/22skiing.html?hp
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“Anyone who isn’t strong is left in a corner, no one asks for their autograph, they are abandoned in the cold shadows. Those who win, however, become icons.”

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Interview with Gazzetta dello Sport, 16 Feb. 2006 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11385083/

“Some people say I make mistakes, I just say that in fact this is the secret of enjoying life. I hate monotony. Why don’t they leave me freedom of choice? People want to impose choices which aren’t necessarily mine. That’s the mistake people make.”

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Interview with Gazzetta dello Sport, 16 Feb. 2006 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11385083/

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