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Article: Instant Replay: Learn to ski fast by watching America's best.
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- February 1, 2006
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Byline: Stu Campbell
AMERICANS BODE MILLER AND Daron Rahlves are among the favorite U.S. athletes for medals in Torino. At their typical breakneck race speeds, it's hard to identify even slight differences in technique. But these slow-motion photo sequences, shot at the 2005 U.S. National Downhill in Mammoth, Calif., last spring, highlight each skier's unique style and can teach us all how to master speed on snow.
Daron's skiing is disciplined and understandable to most technicians. Detractors once described Bode's style as unorthodox, even wrong. Now that he's the overall World Cup champ, it's called "innovative."
It's impossible to know who ...