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Bode's recent streak doesn't mean instant medals

By Carrie Sheinberg
Special to ESPN.com

Saturday, February 18, 2006

SESTRIERE, Italy -- Consider this: 18th, DNF, DNF and DNS. Are these the results of someone you would expect to see on the podium at the Olympic Games? No. Yet, they are the super-G results Bode Miller has accumulated this season. Try these: 22nd, 2nd, 7th, 9th, 11th and 4th. Do Miller's downhill results make him a top contender coming into the Games? Hardly. And yet, because he has not reached the podium after three events, Miller is already labeled a bust. The fact is, Miller is sk ...

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