Bode Miller is at it again, this time calling out Barry Bonds and Lance Armstrong in a Rolling Stones interview.
“Right now, if you want to cheat, you can: Barry Bonds and those guys are just knowingly cheating, but there’s all sorts of loopholes,” he told the magazine. “If you say it has to be ‘knowingly,’ you do what Lance (Armstrong) and all those guys do, where every morning their doctor gives them a box of pills and they don’t ask anything, they just take the pills.”
Apparently, he just can not leave well enough alone. Bode Miller seems concerned that somebody is going to try to frame him for using steroids. To me, it seems like he is and is trying (unsuccessfully) to make it seem like he is not so that he can claim it’s a frame-up.
Hopefully his short vacation gives him some time to get his head on straight, so that he can keep his mouth shut and start actually performing out on the snow; his season this year has been a bit disappointing when compared to how he had been doing previously.
He definitely has a Gen Patton mentality, and doesn’t seem to realize, no matter how good he is, he is always expendable. I doubt he’ll change.
[...] Last January, Bode Miller accused Barry Bonds and Lance Armstrong of using steroids in a Rolling Stones interview. Well, Lance Armstrong has now used Men’s Journal to call out Bode Miller: “Listen, I’m not a fan,” Armstrong said. “He attacked me, and it’s hard to be a fan when you get attacked personally. I wanted to be a fan, but then you quickly become not a fan. He’s such a rebel; I thought he’d raise his level and win big. I really think he’s a gamer … Ultimately, I don’t think what he did was fair. I mean, look, doping isn’t fair. But getting people to invest in your story, in your career … that’s not fair if all we came away with in the end is somebody saying, ‘Yeah, but I partied at the Olympic level.’” [...]
[...] My first impression upon hearing this was that he wants Lance Armstrong to be a fan, and that he was not happy that Lance found it hard to be a fan after Bode called him out. Maybe donating the money will go some way towards saying that he was sorry for his comments. [...]