Off to the Mountains—Again

Posted Feb 20, 2006 by Bill Ward

Updated Feb 20, 2006 at 06:27 PM

11 a.m.

It’s time to head to Sestriere, about 65 miles away from Turin.

Bode Miller is skiing the giant slalom today and I want to see if he can win his first medal of the Games. That may not sound like very far to go, but more than half of it will be on a rather treacherous two-lane road that winds through the mountains. You know that Michael Cain movie “The Italian Job,” the one where they nearly go over the edge of the mountain in the final scene of the movie? That was filmed here in the Italian Alps. This will be my biggest driving challenge yet of the Olympics—besides trying to find a parking place in Turin.