Hitched to Miller, U.S. Ski Effort Veers Off Course

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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/19/sports/olympics/19bode.html

SESTRIERE, Italy, Feb. 18 — Bode Miller released an autobiography last year, "Bode: Go Fast, Be Good, Have Fun."

It is catchier than "Fifth Place, Disqualified, Did Not Finish."

Those are the results for Miller after three Olympic ski races at the Turin Games. Miller, the defending world champion, pre-Olympic media star and medal contender in five events, made it 0 for 3 Saturday when he slammed into a gate in the men's super-G, then teetered off the course like a weekend novice looking for somewhere soft to fall.

In a surprise, Kjetil Andre Aamodt, 34, of Norway, won the race, 14 years after he won the super-G at the Albertville Games in France. Aamodt has won eight Olympic medals, the most of any Alpine skier. Hermann Maier of Austria, whose dominance at previous Games Miller had hoped to duplicate, took the silver medal, and Ambrosi Hoffmann of Switzerland earned the bronze medal.