Outside Jan 2004 - Bode Miller
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Outside Jan 2004 - Bode Miller
It's been a while since this artical about Bode Miller came out but I was just reading it again and found the 1st few paragraphs to be a great opener for the story. So just thought I'd post it for anyone who missed it.
[COMING INTO THE TURN, it's clear that Bode Miller is carying way too much speed. He's on a tight, treacherous course, with a lot of chatter and no room for error. Blow this corner and there's a thousand-foot tumble to the sheep pastures below.
Miller does the natural thing: He hits the gas and cranks the wheel hard to the left, throwing his rented Subaru into a four-wheel power slide around a muddy hairpin curve.
It's a sunny August afternoon, and the 26-year old Miller is blitzing down from the Treble Cone ski area, on New Zealand's South Island, where he and the rest of the men's US Ski Team have spent the morning training in the snows of austral winter. Treble Cone is on of New Zealand's largest and most developed ski areas, but it can be reached only by a snaky mountain road that turns from asphalt into dirt before switchbacking the last five miles up to the base area. Riding down with Miller after practice, I understand now why none of his teammates wanted to come along.
As the Subaru slides toward the edge, it's starting to look seriously like Miller's 2003-04 ski season---might end before it starts. But just then the wheels catch, pulling the car to the inside. Miller countersteers expertly, straightening out, and guns it down the next pitch.
"These bumps suck," he mutters.
Maybe he shoudl try organized rally driving, I suggest through clenched teeth.
Whoooosh. He pulls another power slide, this time to the right. "Naw," Miller says. "If I were a rally driver, you'd be ****ting your pants."
And with that he rails the last turn, a gravelly sweeper on the flats, shoots past a carload of startled teammates, and hits the pavement flying.]
Anyway, just thought I'd put it out there for anyone who gives. It was kinda cool that at first you think he talking about the obvious (skiing) and then you figure out it's about his driving...and it's a Subaru to boot!
Late,
Lowball
P.S. Can't wait until the snow season starts
[COMING INTO THE TURN, it's clear that Bode Miller is carying way too much speed. He's on a tight, treacherous course, with a lot of chatter and no room for error. Blow this corner and there's a thousand-foot tumble to the sheep pastures below.
Miller does the natural thing: He hits the gas and cranks the wheel hard to the left, throwing his rented Subaru into a four-wheel power slide around a muddy hairpin curve.
It's a sunny August afternoon, and the 26-year old Miller is blitzing down from the Treble Cone ski area, on New Zealand's South Island, where he and the rest of the men's US Ski Team have spent the morning training in the snows of austral winter. Treble Cone is on of New Zealand's largest and most developed ski areas, but it can be reached only by a snaky mountain road that turns from asphalt into dirt before switchbacking the last five miles up to the base area. Riding down with Miller after practice, I understand now why none of his teammates wanted to come along.
As the Subaru slides toward the edge, it's starting to look seriously like Miller's 2003-04 ski season---might end before it starts. But just then the wheels catch, pulling the car to the inside. Miller countersteers expertly, straightening out, and guns it down the next pitch.
"These bumps suck," he mutters.
Maybe he shoudl try organized rally driving, I suggest through clenched teeth.
Whoooosh. He pulls another power slide, this time to the right. "Naw," Miller says. "If I were a rally driver, you'd be ****ting your pants."
And with that he rails the last turn, a gravelly sweeper on the flats, shoots past a carload of startled teammates, and hits the pavement flying.]
Anyway, just thought I'd put it out there for anyone who gives. It was kinda cool that at first you think he talking about the obvious (skiing) and then you figure out it's about his driving...and it's a Subaru to boot!
Late,
Lowball
P.S. Can't wait until the snow season starts
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Originally Posted by LadyLes
Nice! Oh, and in New Zealand-I'm jealous! Skiing and subarus, sounds perfect...I can't wait till the snow flies either! 
Pray for snow!
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