Always pull for the drunkard

Especially if they adorn a Megadeth T-shirt.

Bode Miller. When America first cast eyes on him during this Olympics, it was as though we had the wrong guy. Surely this was not the surly skier from Olympics' past. This could not be the Gen X borderline Y who figuratively gave the Olympic world the finger as he partied and consequently under performed time and time again.

WOW. Four years and an attitude adjustment resulted in a medal by 9/100's of a second. Now the most decorated American male alpine skier in history. What happened? How did he go from petulant child to record-breaking icon?