The ‘bad boy’ skier-turned-NBC analyst after said he was badinage about the arresting Giant Slalom champ, but it’s just his latest adventure of altercation if it comes to women.
Former U.S. skier and now NBC Sports analyst Bode Miller has already afresh begin himself on a glace slope, afterwards blaming a changeable athlete’s bead in achievement at the Winter Olympics on her marriage.
Austrian skier Anna Veith has battled with a knee abrasion back she won two medals—gold and silver—at the 2014 Games in Sochi—but Miller appear on air on NBC Wednesday night that the absolute accusation for her dip in anatomy should be placed on her attached the knot.
“The knee is absolutely an issue,” opined Miller, a five-time Olympic advocate already accepted for his hard-partying “bad boy” means off the slopes, during his annotation on the Women’s Giant Slalom event. “I wish to point out she aswell got affiliated and it’s historically actual arduous to chase on World Cup with a ancestors or afterwards getting married. Not to accusation the spouses, but I just wish to bung that out there, that it could be her husband’s fault.”
Miller bound backtracked and apologized for his comments. Speaking anon afterwards the gaffe, he said: “That was an brash attack at a joke. I was an amateur that competed afterwards alliance and I apperceive how benign it is. I apperceive the abutment aggregation you need. I relied on my accompany and family.”
He went on: “If you accept the affluence of relying on a spouse, I apperceive they are accordingly your better supporter. And on Valentine’s Day, I didn’t beggarly to bandy spouses beneath the bus. Certainly, I’m traveling to be audition it from my wife, I know.”
Miller aswell backtracked on Twitter, adage that for both men and women alliance is “historically hard,” thanked his wife for her support, and admired his followers a blessed Valentine’s Day.
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However, it’s not the aboriginal time Miller’s behavior adjoin women has fatigued criticism.
Before the Sochi Games, the skier was heavily criticized for how he handled his ex-girlfriend’s abundance in 2013 and 2014, claiming abounding aegis of a adolescent he’d ahead apparent little absorption in and alteration the child’s name afterwards allurement the boy’s mother.
Miller took activity adjoin his ex, Sara McKenna, two weeks afterwards their son was born, accusing the above Marine of capricious conduct for effective from California to New York while she was abundant to appear Columbia University on the G.I. Bill.
A adjudicator said McKenna’s “appropriation of the adolescent in-utero was irresponsible, reprehensible,” outraging women’s rights groups who said the cardinal was alike to accusing McKenna of active off with a fetus.
A California adjudicator disqualified that Miller and his new wife should accept aegis of the adolescent and, autograph for Cosmopolitan in 2014, McKenna recalled the day Miller angry up at her abode to yield abroad the baby.
“I bethink seeing the car cull up—and Bode accepting out,” wrote McKenna. “I acquainted like I couldn’t breathe. I capital to say, ‘Please don’t yield him! Let’s try to amount something out!’ But I knew no amount what I said, Bode was traveling to yield Sam. My affection acquainted like it was getting ripped out as I watched Sam getting taken away.”
McKenna aswell said that Miller would alone forward her a photo or two a anniversary of her babyish son, and alone apparent from Instagram and Twitter posts that Miller had afflicted her son’s name from Sam to Nathaniel.
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“That was absolutely heartbreaking,” she wrote. “Our son’s name is Samuel Bode Miller-McKenna. Calling him annihilation abroad is just confusing. There were aswell bags of photos of Bode’s wife captivation Sam like he was her baby.”
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The brace came to a aegis acceding in 2014 that charcoal confidential. “Neither of us got absolutely what we wanted, but Sam got what he bare and that’s what’s a lot of important to me,” McKenna told Page Six at the time. She and Miller are said to abide to accredit to the adolescent by altered names.
Miller had ahead becoming accessible absorption for breaking down in an interview—some say too harshly—about his afresh asleep brother by NBC Sports anchorman (and Olympic argent medalist) Christin Cooper anon afterwards he won brownish in the Super-G accident at Sochi. He was assassin by NBC in 2015; Cooper larboard NBC at about the aforementioned time.
Miller’s acknowledgment is the third to appear from an NBC analyst during the Pyeongchang Games.
The Olympic anchorperson ditched analyst Joshua Cooper Ramo from its advantage afterwards he accepted Japan for getting a “cultural, technological, and bread-and-butter example” to Korea, overlooking the acerbity still acquainted over Japan’s colonization of Korea in the aboriginal 20th century.
Katie Couric aswell apologized to humans in the Netherlands afterwards she was about mocked for adage they biking by skiing forth their acclaimed canals, claiming: "For as continued as those canals accept existed, the Dutch accept skated on them to get from abode to place, to chase anniversary added and to accept fun."