Bode Miller drops Olympic slalom, but will finish World Cup season
Pack it up. U.S. skier Bode Miller is finished with the Olympics, probably for the rest of his career. However, his season is not done yet.
.@MillerBode says he will not race this week's #slalom but will race the rest of the World Cup season. #Olympics
— usskiteam (@usskiteam) February 19, 2014
Miller is struggling with his left knee and said he tweaked it in the first run of Wednesday's giant slalom. It is the same knee that needed surgery in 2012.
“It’s been maintaining some puffiness in there through this whole couple weeks,” Miller said after the first run, via the Washington Post. “And slalom is the hardest on it. The combined slalom was pretty gnarly.”
He completed the second run, but finished in the middle of the pack.
Miller tied for bronze in the super-G earlier this week, becoming the oldest alpine skier to claim a medal.