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Even though I only watched perhaps 2 hours of Olympic coverage in the last two weeks, I did manage to hear about the Bode Miller ‘all talk no walk’ skiing performance. Bode decided to take a shot at Armstrong:

“Right now, if you want to cheat, you can: Barry Bonds and those guys
are just knowingly cheating, but there’s all sorts of loopholes,” he
told the magazine. “If you say it has to be ‘knowingly,’ you do what
Lance (Armstrong) and all those guys do, where every morning their
doctor gives them a box of pills and they don’t ask anything, they just
take the pills.”

Talk about not knowing when to just keep your mouth shut. Good editorial at PezCyclingNews:

Sestriere: The Great Climb, The Great Descent…
What a wonderfully telling story the winter Olympics were and how dead on was Bode Miller in his comment that while he might ski drunk, skip training, lack heart and not be able to produce when it counts, at least he’s no Lance Armstrong?

And there was no more fitting place to show the world what the difference is between a man who wastes his talent and a man who works hard to be a champion. Sestriere launched Lance into 7 Tour wins and stardom, as the stage for his first mountain win in ‘99 and the same mountain probably launched Bode Miller into an assistant manager’s job at a Walmart near you…

Great call Bode… You’re no Lance Armstrong.
(- Submitted by C.Manantan)

In case you didn’t know, Sestriere was the climb where Lance, in one vicious attack through rain and hail, sealed up his first tour victory.

The Bretton Woods Ski Resort in New Hampshire was running ads touting their slopes as the ‘Home of Bode Miller’. Wonder how long it will be till those get pulled from the air.