Bode is back
Friday September 25, 2009 - Email this article to a friend

The 31-year old does not have a great Olympic record; he won 2 silver medals in Salt Lake City in 2002 and that is it. He has been to 3 Olympics.

He is though America's most successful ever racer with 31 World Cup wins and 4 world championships gold medals to his name.

However he doesn't have an Olympic Gold and at the last Olympics in Turin made more headlines for his partying than his skiing.

Earlier this month we reported on his hints that he might re-join the US team here on PlanetSKI.  He also said though that he might go and produce wine.

Miller fell out with the US team in 2007 and started his own team but has always kept lines of communication open.

"To have Bode come back to the family is extremely exciting for us," said the US men's Alpine ski coach, Sasha Rearick. "I'm looking forward to having Bode lead through his actions."

Miller will have to qualify for the team and get the required number of points.  It's thought his first race will be the season opener at Solden in Austria at the end of next month.

"You can see how it would be nice to walk away and try something new, then you walk away and there's obviously a big hole left. I still had more to give," Miller said at a news conference in California on Thursday.

"World Cup is great and I've been able to get some performances out of myself that I've been surprised by, but there really is no comparison to the energy and the atmosphere surrounding the Olympics. I'm looking forward hopefully to being able to perform at my very highest level in that atmosphere."

Miller has just had surgery on his left eye and, though he has been training recently,  he does admit to being out of shape and not up to comeptition standard.

So why is he one of the most exciting skiers we have ever seen?  Check out the video below.  Amazing stuff!

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