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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: 10 Questions for Bode Miller [Watch (HLS stream): 10 Questions for Bode Miller](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/SCzM0Aw7.m3u8) (4:45)  _Published 2007-12-17. After a disappointing 2006 Olympics, he gave up alcohol and formed his own Team America. Bode Miller will now answer your questions._ --- Jul 25, 2023 4:31 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [In Memoriam: Mac Miller](/video/7cXRcGJP/) ### In Memoriam: Mac Miller [Olympian Bode Miller's 19-Month-Old Daughter Dies After Drowning in Pool](/video/7Tip8Swk/) ### Olympian Bode Miller's 19-Month-Old Daughter Dies After Drowning in Pool [Sienna Miller Says She Burnt A Lot Of Bridges](/video/CJkPRTQR/) ### Sienna Miller Says She Burnt A Lot Of Bridges --- ## Transcript >> Thanks for stopping by, I appreciate it. Readers have lots of questions for you Bode and one of the most popular ones is you felt you needed to separate yourself from the U. S. Ski Team. Was that because of differences with the management or the athletes, or just to get a fresh start? In other words, why did go off on your own and start Team America? >> The primary reasons were the team cut my funding. I was no longer gonna be funded on the team. So, if I wanted to be a participant on the U. S. Ski Team any longer, I was gonna be paying for myself anyway so-- Another one was at this point in my career, I felt like it was something I wanted to do to explore how it felt to be on my own and address the issues that I've been talking about for years that experts in this sport and the management team in the U. S. Ski Team didn't feel I was important as I did not. I can understand that as a group maybe they weren't as important, but for me individually I think they were, so I thought it was a positive chance to go on my own and explore those options that are really normal and natural point in my career. >> Tell me a little about your team, Team America. What are the components? >> I would say it's similar to any other national team. There's a head coach, John McBride who was the coach on the U. S. Ski Team for 10 years. >> Uh huh. >> Mike Kenney as an assistant coach and Forest Carey as an assistant coach and I have those guys traveling in a bus that has a full workout area in it with Agathon machine, gym bike, a video area with the projection screen and my motorhome with my own chef and, you know, hanging out area, eating area and bed and then-- and then my technicians, which have their own-- they're tuning stuff on all my equipment and it's basically it runs the same as a team. It's just right now it's a little bit inefficient because I'm only one athlete and do you need that same-- the same amount of resources virtually to support a four, or five or six- person team as you do to support a one- person team. So, that's a little bit frustrating that I can't really bring on other athletes because they don't really have the freedom of movement that I do within the team and I haven't earned their spot so they would-- they would forfeit, start rights if they came on and race with me. >> What happen to the guy who-- that sort of a wild and crazy guy both on the slopes and off the slopes? Is that guy still there? I mean I think it's a-- it's a matter of perception no matter how you look at it. I can easily make everyone think that I'm not partying and not doing anything or I could easily make people think the other side, and in the past, it's just been a matter of where the media positions themselves and where the stories are as far as where the focus is put. And this year with things like ski space entrepreneurial sort of debut for me and my team separating and being, you know-- being independent, there's a lot of other stuff that people are starting to focus on and I think that's may be bring in the focus away from what it was before. >> A number of readers wanted to know if you-- if you've been on a board and heading like snowboarding. >> I grow up snowboarding for quite a lot. I snowboarded for four or five years before I got serious in the racing. I was very sane at the same time, but I was snowboarding also and went through a period at the Carrabassett Valley Academy where I went to a boarding school where all my coaches both skiing and snowboarding allowed me to switch to snowboarding 'cause they thought I was no good at skiing. I was too skinny and I was bad and had terrible technique and they wanted me to be a snowboarder because at that time snowboarding was really just taking off and I was second in our all school snowboard race, which was against the bunch of guys who are national rankings in snowboarding. They're on a team that was called Cross Time at that time, which was like the national team at that time and I beat a couple of those guys and they were saying that, you know, I should definitely be a snowboarder and luckily, I resisted. >> What is the worst ski crash you've ever gone into? >> Yeah. I've had a lot of them. I mean, I crash a bunch. It seems like-- But I've got one crash is when I was really small that were incredible. Just-- You know, I was really gumby- like and little but anyway, so you just don't hurry yourself. But I had crashes that would have killed me now. But I just fearless now for doing [ unk ] and just trying to keep up with the older guys on that mountain and I will just go, you know, flying off, jumps and go 40 or 50 meters and when I was, you know, 6 years old and you just-- when you crash, everything comes off. Your equipment is not made to do that kind of force when you're that small and I broke skis and, you know, I would smash my goggles and, you know, got bloody nose and go crawling ) inside and rest for a while and then come back out and ski more in the afternoon. ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"10 Questions for Bode Miller","description":"After a disappointing 2006 Olympics, he gave up alcohol and formed his own Team America. 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