BEAVER CREEK, Colo. — Bode Miller, the United States’ most decorated Olympic ski racer, retired last month.
On Saturday, Miller conceded with a snicker that most American sports fans will have no idea that he left the sport until they tune into the Winter Olympics in two months. It is the nature of the Olympic cycle in North America.
“Ski racing is a once-every-four-years thing for a lot of Americans,” Miller, 40, said here. “But when Americans do turn to the Winter Olympics, they’ve gotten used to our skiers producing incredible, outsize results.”
But just eight weeks before the start of the Pyeongchang Games, a worrisome question lingers: Can the American men’s team keep up with their incandescent counterparts on the women’s team?