He has a syndicated show in major ski areas in the U.S.
Since his retirement from ski racing in 1981, Mill has worked as a ski racing commentator with ESPN, NBC, ABC, and CBS. World Cup results Top ten finishes Seasonįrom 1948 through 1980, the Winter Olympics were also the World Championships for alpine skiing. In order to compete, he froze his leg in the snow minutes before entering the starting gate.
His lower right leg was so badly bruised from a training injury that he could not stand without pain the day before the race. Olympic Spirit Award in recognition for overcoming adversity in the 1976 Olympic Games, where he placed sixth in the downhill, even though injured. In 1988, Mill was presented with the U.S. His racing career ended in January 1981 after a serious crash in a training run on the Lauberhorn in Wengen, Switzerland. Two years later, he competed at the 1978 World Championships in Garmisch, West Germany, and the 1980 Olympics in Lake Placid, where he was 16th in the downhill. Mill had placed fifth in the previous year's World Cup event on the same run, his best World Cup finish.įollowing the Olympics, Mill won the downhill at the 1976 U.S. Mill's finish was the best by an American in the men's downhill in 24 years, since Bill Beck's fifth place in 1952. Mill's finest hour was at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria, where he placed sixth in the downhill at Patscherkofel, which was won dramatically by Franz Klammer of Austria. In the mid-1970s, Mill was nicknamed "Wilde Hund" (wild dog) by Europeans for his gritty style and appearance (long hair & beard). For the next seven years, when not injured, he was America's top downhill racer. Ski Team in 1971, and in 1974, Mill competed at the World Championships in St. Mill was an accomplished junior racer and made the U.S. Ski career īorn in Fort Collins, Colorado, Mill moved with his family to Laramie, Wyoming, before relocating to Aspen, Colorado, in the early 1960s. He was two-time Olympian, competing primarily in the downhill and combined events on the World Cup circuit. Andy Ray Mill (born February 11, 1953) is a former alpine ski racer on the U.S.
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