What is going on with Bode Miller? Is it distraction from too many television interviews? Was he just not really into these Olympics?
In a somewhat controversial decision, Miller was disqualified from today’s downhill combined when he straddled a gate. It took over 30 minutes of reviews to determine that he should be disqualified. Really, if it takes that long to figure it out, should it count? The disqualification placed Austria’s Benjamin Raich in first.
Miller seemed completely unruffled by the disqualification, which is fairly typical. The disqualification did leave American Ted Ligety in third place, with a good shot at a medal.
This is the 5th straight slalom in which he’s DQ’ed. He was probably so nonchanlant about it because he’s so used to it.
It looks like the poster boy of this olympics is going to end up being the invisible man.
Well, of course it should count. If it takes 6 months to determine someone’s guilt in a crime, do we say it doesn’t count? Slalom is very fast and requires careful review to see what actually happened. If he straddled a gate then he’s dq’d, it doesn’t matter how long it took to determine that he did.