Miller off US ski roster; Olympic spot uncertain

Bode Miller’s name no longer appears on the roster of the U.S. ski team. That doesn’t mean he’s retiring or won’t ever race again or that his chances of making a sixth Olympic squad have ended. The situation is just hazy. “I’m not going to say (Miller won’t be at the Olympics), because it’s Bode Miller,” U.S. men’s coach Sasha Rearick said by telephone. “Who knows? But my expectations of that aren’t high.”

The team announced its nominations Thursday for the 201718 World Cup season. The familiar names are all there Lindsey Vonn, Mikaela Shiffrin, Julia Mancuso and Ted Ligety with the official roster set to be released closer to November when the season starts.

But Miller is now listed as “alumni,” with his chances of making the Pyeongchang Olympics in February very much uncertain.

He turns 40 in October and hasn’t competitively raced since severing his right hamstring tendon during a super-G crash at the world championships in February 2015.