Sports Connection | Bode Miller | TEDxBigSky
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- Опубликовано: 3 фев 2020
- Bode Miller is an American Alpine skier who won six Olympic medals - more than any other American skier - and won the men’s world cup overall title in 2005 and 2008. Bode Miller is an American Alpine skier who won six Olympic medals - more than any other American skier - and won the men’s world cup overall title in 2005 and 2008.
Miller was born in the heart of the White Mountains in New Hampshire. He grew up at the Cannon Mountain Ski Area. In a community that lives a simple life, he was raised in a house without electricity or plumbing on 450 acres of land. Bode was only two when he began sliding down his driveway with strap-on skis and a homemade snowboard. By age four, he was skiing almost every day that there was snow on the ground. At age eight, he started ski racing. And at age 14, he began attending Carrabassett Valley Academy, a ski academy in Sugarloaf, Maine.
Since then, Bode Miller has become the most successful American alpine ski racer of all time. He is considered one of the greatest World Cup racers of all time, with 33 race victories, eleven Olympic and world championship medals, and one of five men to win in all five disciplines (downhill, super-G, giant slalom, slalom, combines), and one of two men to accomplish the feat in a single season. His career highlights include:
Double Silver Medals at the 2002 Winter Olympics
World Championships: In 2003, he became the first American to win two gold medals in a single World Championships. In the 2004-2005 season, he recorded six World Cup wins and took the overall title, and the super-G title, as well as two gold medals in the world championships.
Independent World Cup Champion (2007-2008): After leaving the U.S. Team, Miller captured his second World Cup overall title.
Olympic Triple (2010): After rejoining the U.S. team, Bode won his first Olympic gold in super combined at the Vancouver Games and took home a silver and bronze in other disciplines.
Miller became known for his fearless, unorthodox and fast skills. He stated that his basic goal as a skier was not to win medals but rather to ski “as fast as the natural universe will allow”. His personality and world-class ski racing skills made him stand out both on and off the ski hill.
He published his autobiography “Bode: Go Fast, Be Good, Have Fun”, written with Jack McEnany, in 2005. Throughout his career, Miller has worked with many ski and apparel companies, such as K2, Atomic, Kjus, Nike, Head Alpine Equipment, Fischer and Rossignol. In 2015, he decided to join Bomber Ski with the goal of making the best skis in the world. He partnered with Aztech Mountain, a high-end sportswear maker. And has also exchanged his vast expertise for equity at bag maker, Esperos.
Bode founded the Turtle Ridge Foundation in 2005. Several years of helping work through the challenges his close family friend faced as a paraplegic, after a car crash, made it clear that a solution was needed on a larger scale. Since then, the Turtle Ridge Foundation has been impactful nation-wide with grants, events, and leadership on creating programs to assist youth sports and adaptive sports of all kinds.
In 2017, Bode Miller officially retired from competitive skiing to spend more time with his family, to act as an on-air ski racing analyst for NBC, and to focus on his new-found passion of horse training. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
Totally not what I thought this might be about but totally fantastic! Especially being one of the people unknowingly collectively, “joining hands” around the world in the hopes that Bode would pull off this Olympic miracle. Everyone cheered for BODE! Still are.
Arguably the most famous US skier IN HISTORY made me genuinely laugh out loud within the first 30 seconds of a TED talk. I don’t know what I was expecting, but dang, I love the US olympic team. I always dreamt of being on it. They just love life and it is infectious. We need more athletes in this day and age, I miss the Olympics being something that I felt like the nation watched together. No one as incredible as Bode deserves only 4.5k views after 2 years. He is a NATIONAL HERO, why do we toss them out and replace their airtime with tik tokers, smh. Much love now and always Bode!!! I have childhood memories of you inspiring me. Those stick around for life, thank you for the zeal you brought to the slopes and to the world.
The fact that I don’t remember Bode’s voice yet I remember how incredible it was to see him fly down the side of a mountain is a testament to how much life he brought to the mountain. A creative skier, a brave skier, a daring skier. I wish I lived my life more like him. Never too late to move to the mountains though, I want to experience the rush and connection to life that he must have felt every single time he slalomed down the shining white face of a cliff. A true human in every sense of the word.
Thank you for sharing your amazing Olympic experience and perspective Bode. Very interesting where magically and unbelievably the energy went on the day of the combined.
Always been a fan of skiing but never saw this side of Bode’s life before; enlightening
That concept of time warp, was shown also at the end of the movie "downhill Racer" when Redford is watching the last skier come down, before he wins. The difference is Bode is a real champion. I rode the chair with Lasse Kjus, at a Beaver Creek World Cup. He said he traveled 270 days a year. We talked about the combination of being pumped and relaxed at the same time while racing. He was great also. Not easy being a ski racer, beside trying to be the best. Bode did it all, and still does. Great video thanks.
BODE!!!!! Thank you!
I know that you can’t affect distant events like he might suggest, but the reality of people feeling connected especially when in a beautiful natural setting like a mountain, watching superhuman fly down the side is very much not pseudoscience. The crowd may not have changed the outcome of the race, but the realization of the gigantic nature of what Bode did on the mountain that day might have reset their minds out of sheer awestruckness. Lmfao not claiming to be a scientist, just saying that your body language and actions can have ripple effects on people when they notice how in tune you are with your own nature and the nature around you! Connection is a universal feeling, and it hardly ever gets talked about now. Thank you bode
This is so fascinating and magic
This is my favorite TED talk minus the whole rice experiment which I am familiar with. Doesn't matter if you love skiing; Bode is unique and totally admirable.
Bode‘s my favorite skier of all time, always loved him and always will. Also, there’s no denying that a crowd will influence the outcome of a ski race. It sure did in St. Moritz in 2002; I have vivid memories of that race. Finally, there’s an awful lot to be said for positive vibes in general, and for being kind like the rice experiment urges you to be. That experiment itself, however, is of course nonsense. I suggest you eat all that rice instead of letting two thirds of it rot. If you want to ski like Bode, you’ll need the calories. ;)
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