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First Olympic gold for Bode Miller
by Zuzana Zelenakova

On Sunday, American ace Bode Miller fulfilled one of his dreams when he won his first Olympic gold medal in the men´s super-combined. Miller´s winning time was 2 minutes 44.92 seconds. Ivica Kostelic from Croatia lost 0.33 second on Miller and received the silver. The bronze medal went to Switzerland´s Silvan Zurbriggen. "The gold medal is great. I think it's perfect. Ideally, that's what everyone is shooting for. But the way I skied these last races is what matters. I would've been proud of that skiing with a medal or not," Miller said after the race. Truly, his Sunday performance which he was obviously enjoying is something to be proud of. The gold for Bod! e Miller comes after he won a bronze in downhill on Monday and silver in Friday´s super-G. The public is now waiting to see what happens in two remaining events, the giant slalom and the slalom. The pressure put not only on Miller but the whole American team is enormous right now. Miller´s gold was eight medal for the USA and everyone is wondering how long are the Americans able to keep such a pace. "I don't know how long we can keep this up. It's emotionally and physically exhausting," said Miller. Miller´s winning chain in Vancouver is frequently put in contrast with what we could call 2006 Turin fiasco. Four years ago in Italy, the American athlete disappointed a lot of people when he finished only two of five races and never ranked better than fifth, not to mention his party man reputation back then. When asked he said he was enormously pressured by all those expectations from media, sponsors, fans. "In '06, I didn't really necessarily want to be there fo! r a number of reasons ... but, you know, I also didn't want to! not be there. So I was incredibly conflicted," he said.

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