Topic: United States

American Bode Miller bids for his fourth Vancouver Games medal in the giant slalom on Tuesday as Korean figure skating starlet Kim Yu-Na makes her Olympic bow and Canada try to restore their ice-hockey pride.Going into day 12, the United States and ...

Slaloms bode well for more Miller medals

WHISTLER (Reuters) - U.S. skier Bode Miller is rarely impressed by honors, milestones or statistics but he is close to achieving a record that even he would surely be proud of.After his super combined gold on Sunday, the 32-year-old Miller is one ...
Miller, Ligety, Ford, Zamansky make US 4-man roster for men's giant slalom Bode Miller will try to become the first man to win four Alpine skiing medals at a single Olympics when he races in Tuesday's giant slalom.Joining him on the four-man ...

US stuns Canada in Olympic ice-hockey clash

Flamboyant skier Bode Miller and rock-steady ice hockey goaltender Ryan Miller allowed the United States to seize control of Super Sunday at the Winter Olympics.On the Whistler slopes, Miller came home ahead of Croatian Ivica Kostelic and Silvan Zurbriggen of Switzerland in ...

Miller and Miller shine as US dominate Super Sunday

Flamboyant skier Bode Miller and rock-steady ice hockey goaltender Ryan Miller allowed the United States to seize control of Super Sunday at the Winter Olympics.On the Whistler slopes, Miller came home ahead of Croatian Ivica Kostelic and Silvan Zurbriggen of Switzerland in ...

Miller shines on hockey-fueled 'Super Sunday'

American dominance of the Olympic pistes continued with Bode Miller surging to the men's super-combined gold on a hockey-fueled Sunday that kicked off with Russia beating the Czechs.The puck dropped with Russia beating the Czech Republic 4-2 as Evgeni Malkin scored two ...

Miller makes it gold, silver and bronze

Bode Miller didn't mention it, but the US Ski team's impressive medals haul appears to be benefiting from a kind of 'home' advantage.Miller won two silver medals at the 2002 Games in Salt Lake City and, in the wake of world downhill ...

Miller wins to extend US domination

Bode Miller on Sunday continued the US team's Olympic alpine skiing medal surge when he won the men's super-combined title for his third podium finish in as many races."I can't ask for anything more," the 32-year-old said, adding that he was unsure ...

Miller wins to extend US alpine domination

Bode Miller on Sunday continued the US team's Olympic alpine skiing medal surge when he won the men's super-combined title for his third podium finish in three races.Miller's gold was the United States' eighth medal (two gold, three silver, three bronze) out ...

Vonn's bronze puts US skiers in seventh heaven

Olympic cover-girl Lindsey Vonn boosted the United States' dominance of the alpine events by winning bronze, the team's seventh from five events, in the women's super-G on Saturday.While Fischbacher's win eased the huge pressure on underfiring alpine giants Austria, Vonn helped stretch ...