Bode an Olympic Disappointment

Bode DQ'd in combined, loses shot at medal

Bode Miller was disqualified for straddling (having one ski on either side of) a slalom gate in the Olympic Alpine Skiing Downhill. Now I'm not a huge skiing fan, but this actually bothers me because I watched the interview he gave before the Olympics started and the guy just doesn't care.

Ordinarily when a professional athlete has a bad attitude, it doesn't bother me. But when your country selects you to represent it at the Olympics, you owe the country your best efforts - not some lackadaisical "who cares" attitude about the event. If he wasn't going to give it his best shot, he should have had the decency to step aside so that someone who actually did care could have his shot.

I don't care if that other person doesn't have his natural talent. I'd rather see my countrymen give it a 110% and fail than give it 50% and laugh it off...