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On 9 December 2001 the first pearl in the World Cup in the giant on the Oreiller-Killy, the following night a masterpiece in the slalom on the Canalone Miramonti. And from those 36 hours, the white circus fell in love with a unique talent.
Thursday 9 December 2021 4 minutes reading time
There is a specific date, or rather two days in which a bit of everything happened, which changed the story of a boy who became a phenomenon, enchanting millions of fans.
Today, twenty years ago, Bode Miller broke in with his first two career victories in a World Cup that had already partially discovered his enormous talent, but that the New Hampshire phenomenon overwhelmed with his impetuousness and his genius even before the successes against the clock and opponents.
Sunday 9 and Monday 10 December 2001, first the giant of Val d''Isère, on the “old” Oreiller-Killy, then the night of the 3Tre in Madonna di Campiglio to sign an encore in slalom; the good Bode was 24 years old, who had already made his debut in the cup four years earlier, with an extraordinary giant in Park City (it was November 20, 1997) finished in eleventh position, while in Val d''Isère he had already made it clear that he had a a certain feeling with the Critérium de la Première Neige, given that in 2000 he first finished sixth and then third (first podium with bib 25, to which the opening photo refers) in the two giants played within a week.
At the start of the 2001/02 Olympic year, however, he had done even better with the 2nd place in the Aspen slalom, just two weeks before the long appointment in Val d''Isère, which began for Miller with the commitments between super-g, where it came out, and descent (32 °), before trying again in giant. It is December 9th and Bode is third after the 1st heat, he started with bib n ° 8, 32 cents from Stephan Eberharter, literally unleashed and ready to win everything in the first year after Hermann Maier's injury, and 20 from Frederic Covili, formidable specialist.
It will be the Frenchman who finishes behind him by 2 cents, while the Austrian will make a mistake until he rolls at + 0 ”80, saving the podium by a whisker on Max Blardone and Michael Von Gruenigen, not exactly the latest arrivals.
And so, on December 9, 2001, twenty years ago today, here is Bode Miller's first World Cup triumph.
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