"I appreciate everyone sticking up for me. Please be gentle w christin cooper, it was crazy emotional and not all her fault. #heatofthemoment."
Miller Defends Reporter Who Brought Him To Tears
February 17, 2014

Via AFP:

Bode Miller has leapt to the defence of an experienced NBC reporter who brought him to tears after he won Olympic super-G bronze with incessant references to his dead brother.

Christin Cooper interviewed Miller as the American, who became the oldest Olympic alpine skiing medallist when he won his sixth Winter Games medal on Sunday, made his way past television crews ahead of the medal ceremony.

But the experience opened some raw wounds for Miller, whose brother Chelone, a professional snowboarder, was found dead after an apparent seizure in April last year.

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