Last updated on:
2/22/2010 |
Author: ProCon.org
Bode Miller Biography
- Title:
- Professional alpine skier and five-time Olympic medalist
- Position:
- Pro to the question "Should Performance-Enhancing Drugs Be Accepted in Sports?"
- Reasoning:
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“What do you call aspirin? What do you call Creatine? What do you call vitamin C? Those are all the same thing. It’s not any different than anything else. I don’t know why everybody takes issue with [steroids].
I think they should not worry about it and let athletes do what they want to do – to be in proper training, proper diet. I wish the most performance-enhancing stuff on everybody in their life. I would wish you to enhance your performance as much as you could…”
“Ski God-Turned-Olympic Goat Bode Miller Touts Steroids and His Short Game,” BadGolfer.com, Aug. 18, 2006
- Involvement and Affiliations:
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- Winner, Gold Medal (Men’s Super Combined), Silver Medal (Men’s Super-G), and Bronze Medal (Men’s Downhill) at the Vancouver Winter Olympics, 2010
- Winner, Alpine Skiing World Cup title, 2005 and 2008
- Season Title Winner, Disciplines: Giant Slalom, Combined, Overall, Super-G, 2003-2008
- First place winner in dozens of super-G, slalom, giant slalom, downhill, and combined professional races
- Former Team Member, US Ski Team, 1996-2007
- Winner of two Silver Medals, Winter Olympics, 2002
- Education:
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- Attended Carrabassett Valley Academy
- Other:
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- Became the fifth man in the world to win World Cup races in all five disciplines: slalom, giant slalom, Super-G, downhill, and combined, 2004
- The Bode Miller Alpine Racing video game was released on Jan. 30, 2006
- Star of the biographical film Flying Downhill, 2006
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