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Is Bode Miller a product of US Ski Team Development?
I'm sort of curious as to what others say. I think, like the Mahers, he is
just extremely talented. The US teams just don't seem to have the consistency or the talent top to bottom of the Austrians or the Swiss. What's wrong with the development program? |
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Is Bode Miller a product of US Ski Team Development?
jvwalker51 writes:
I'm sort of curious as to what others say. I think, like the Mahers, he is just extremely talented. The US teams just don't seem to have the consistency or the talent top to bottom of the Austrians or the Swiss. What's wrong with the development program? I think maybe you wanna consider going back and really looking closer at some recent results. The Austrians still have the edge, but not by as much as you seem to think...and the Swiss? Don't think so. They barely showed up last season. -- :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :::::::::::::::::::::::: Mary Malmros Some days you're the windshield, Other days you're the bug. |
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Is Bode Miller a product of US Ski Team Development?
jvwalker51 wrote:
I'm sort of curious as to what others say. I think, like the Mahers, he is just extremely talented. The US teams just don't seem to have the consistency or the talent top to bottom of the Austrians or the Swiss. What's wrong with the development program? First, like Phil and Steve Mahre, Miller is extremely talented - talent is the base you develop from. Anyone who achieve success at the top level combined talent with desire with effort to developed their skills. That says nothing about the USSA development efforts, pro or con. The US Ski Team development program is bigger than the WC, Europa cup, and C team; a development program discussion has to include the junior levels; so, yes, Miller is a product of USSA developmental racing, even before moving to the C team. He was a recognized junior from his early days; his name cropped up in race results regularly, at each J level (_Ski Racing_ publishes results for races all over the country) and even we on the west coast were aware of him before age 15. When he took all the east coast finals years ago, skiing on K2 Fours everyone in the country (well almost everyone) was a-buz at 1) the audacity of the kid going against coaches' advice and racing on a recreational ski, and 2) the audacity of the kid winning all the races, often by enormous (in ski race terms) margins. IMO there are at least two things hindering US racing. One is the well recognized problem of not having real population density in skiing regions, as opposed to the alpine countries. Euro kids get cheering crowds like US kids only see in high school football games, so there's more opportunity AND more incentive - a hard combination to combat. The second, seldom discussed hinderance, is that the promising Euro kids get early international experience seldom afforded to US kids, although there is a push to get more US kids to europe earlier in their career. |
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Is Bode Miller a product of US Ski Team Development?
lal_truckee wrote in
: IMO there are at least two things hindering US racing. One is the well recognized problem of not having real population density in skiing regions, as opposed to the alpine countries. Euro kids get cheering crowds like US kids only see in high school football games, so there's more opportunity AND more incentive - a hard combination to combat. Amen to that. The only cheering I heard when I was racing in high school was from gatekeepers. And they were generally parents from the hosting school's team. Just too many things competing for talented people in the US. Soccer, football, and baseball get kids when they are really young. Sure, if I have kids, they will start skiing before they can walk, but that is not true in all familys. -- Chester Bullock, Tenxible Solutions - Tangible, Flexible Website Hosting, Design and Marketing http://www.tenxible.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Do you really own your domain name? Find out with our free domain name research report. http://www.tenxible.com |
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Is Bode Miller a product of US Ski Team Development?
Chester Bullock wrote:
lal_truckee wrote in : IMO there are at least two things hindering US racing. One is the well recognized problem of not having real population density in skiing regions, as opposed to the alpine countries. Euro kids get cheering crowds like US kids only see in high school football games, so there's more opportunity AND more incentive - a hard combination to combat. Amen to that. The only cheering I heard when I was racing in high school was from gatekeepers. And they were generally parents from the hosting school's team. Just too many things competing for talented people in the US. Soccer, football, and baseball get kids when they are really young. Sure, if I have kids, they will start skiing before they can walk, but that is not true in all familys. Did I hear correctly that Tyler (?) Hamilton who did well in the Tour de France (despite cracking his collar bone in a crash on the first day) had been an elite ski racer ? |
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