Miller on his Olympic legacy: ‘You don’t want to go the Tonya Harding route of winning medals’

Bode Miller references Harding-Kerrigan fiasco

WHISTLER, British Columbia — Bode Miller is using the Tonya Harding-Nancy Kerrigan fiasco to illustrate his point that medals aren’t everything.

Asked to discuss his own Olympic legacy after winning a U.S.-record third career Alpine medal Monday, Miller made an off-the-cuff reference to the infamous episode in 1994, when Harding’s husband helped plan an assault on figure skating rival Kerrigan at the U.S. national championships ahead of the Lillehammer Games.

“You don’t want to go the Tonya Harding route of winning medals,” Miller said. “If you wanted just strictly to win medals, you could go through a whole long start list of racers and just go to their house in the offseason — break a leg here, pull out a shoulder socket there — and you’d probably have a whole bunch of medals.”