Bode coming on strong into Sölden

While the U.S. men’s teamers continue to train, as usual, the American focus is not on the ski team, but on Bode Miller, and word from that camp is positive as well.
    "He's bigger and he's more explosive," says long time coach John McBride who worked out with Miller last month. Miller has added some weight (to 225) and if anything has increased his legendary workouts.   
    He and coach Forest Carey are already in Sölden after 16 days of on-snow work in New Zealand.
    "He will definitely be charging it," Carey said. "He likes his GS skis and is in a good frame of mind, I expect to see him charging."
    Carey said the Solden race hill was a bit soft and that the light was "flat" and difficult when Miller tested the course before it was closed to competitors. "He definitely likes the hill," Carey said.   
    The record would support that.

WHILE THE U.S. men’s teamers continue to train, as usual, the American focus is not on the ski team, but on Bode Miller, and word from that camp is positive as well.
    "He's bigger and he's more explosive," says long time coach John McBride who worked out with Miller last month. Miller has added some weight (to 225) and if anything has increased his legendary workouts.   
    He and coach Forest Carey are already in Sölden after 16 days of on-snow work in New Zealand.   
    "He will definitely be charging it," Carey said. "He likes his GS skis and is in a good frame of mind, I expect to see him charging."
    Carey said the Solden race hill was a bit soft and that the light was "flat" and difficult when Miller tested the course before it was closed to competitors. "He definitely likes the hill," Carey said.   
    The record would support that.
    Sölden has hosted the opening giant slaloms annually since the turn of the century and has helped launch careers. It has also been reasonably kind to U.S. racers in past seasons. Bode Miller won twice to kick off the 2004 and 2005 seasons. He was also second at the beginning of the 2006 season. Last season the U.S. collected second place results from both the men's and women's races with Ted Ligety finishing behind Aksel Lund Svindal and Julia Mancuso finishing a third of a second behind eventual GS title winner Denise Karbon.