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Ah, the game of expectations! Ten years ago, when an American ski racer put in a second-place finish, &quot;We'd be running around here like a chicken with its head cut off,&quot; Bill Marolt, head of the US Ski and Snowboard Team, said.
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World Cup overall leader Bode Miller won a giant slalom for the second time this season Sunday, rallying from fourth place in the opening leg.
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Italy's Massimiliano Blardone won a World Cup giant slalom yesterday in which Bode Miller squandered his first-run lead by catching his arm on a gate his second time down.
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BEAVER CREEK, Colorado  - American Bode Miller set the pace in the downhill leg of the men's World Cup super-combined over a lightning-fast Birds of Prey course on Thursday.
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World Cup overall leader Bode Miller is batting just .200 (1 for 5) in slaloms this season, and his one victory is the only race he's finished. The Franconia, N.H., native earned just 60 points in three weekend races (he was third in Saturday's downhill) after he skied out in the second leg on the famed Lauberhorn hill in yesterday's ...
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Bode Miller's three-race winning streak ended Thursday, but the American still added to his commanding lead in the World Cup overall standings by finishing second to Austria's Stephan Goergl in a Super G.
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Bode Miller added another triumph to his sparkling season on Monday, claiming his sixth World Cup win of the campaign in a slalom and a new entry in the record books.
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For the second year in a row, Bode Miller has won the first World Cup race of the season.
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How do you finish out of the running in two races, wind up third in another and still increase your points lead in the World Cup? By being Franconia, NH, phenom Bode Miller.
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BEAVER CREEK, Colorado  - American Alpine ski showman Bode Miller won a men's World Cup downhill on Friday to return to the top of the podium in front of his home fans.
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The Italian talks about his second career pole position, which he grabbed in tricky conditions at Spa.
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Bode Miller won his fourth World Cup ski race this season and Daron Rahlves was second Friday -- the first 1-2 finish for the United States in the downhill.
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SOELDEN, Austria  - Bode Miller should finally be going his own way when the Alpine skiing World Cup season starts on the glaciers above Soelden this weekend.
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LAKE LOUISE, Alberta - World Cup leader Bode Miller gave up one-hundredth of a second through the first interval Saturday and then stormed through a two-mile downhill course to win by nearly a full second.
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Bode Miller won the grueling Stelvio downhill in Bormio, Italy, yesterday for his first World Cup victory since breaking away from the US Ski Team.
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Elliott Sadler raced to his second victory of the season and wrapped up a spot in the NASCAR&#39;s new championship playoff Sunday night at California Speedway.
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Kurt Busch and Kasey Kahne did what they had to do. Greg Biffle didn't, and now faces a difficult road ahead. Busch won his second straight road course pole on Friday, wheeling his No. 2 Miller Lite Dodge through the 11-turn Watkins Glen International course at 122.966 mph to knock Kahne (121.845 mph) to second.