downhill wrote:
Mary Malmros wrote:

downhill wrote:

The promo run for the news story was more exciting than the story
itself.
They showed a bunch of his crashes and focused on how often he DNF's
I heard a few different excerpts on WCBS radio, from he does not care
about winning gold and the drunk episode was the race after he won
the overall title. They showed him under the influence of last nights
partying after the overall win. The video show's him a little shaky
leaving the starting gate.
But his answers were typical bode responses with no definitive answers



Text is on the CBS website under 60 minutes; I've got the link around
somewhere if anyone wants it and can't find it.


I have read it several times and viewed a few more web sites and spoke
to a few non skiers that watched 60 minutes most felt that he got the
shaft in that story.

"Bode called it "character assassination" and said CBS was assuring him
by midday it was a "glowing profile.""

http://www.theunionleader.com/articl...0-ffb9eee4d729

You know, my read on it is that far from glorifying it (as some have
accused him of doing), he's explaining why skiing drunk is a Bad Idea.
But even so, he's now got all kinds of people (including Bill Marolt)
down on his ****.

I give even odds that he tells Marolt to go **** himself and quits.