{"id":832,"date":"2014-02-17T10:01:42","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T15:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/?p=832"},"modified":"2014-02-17T10:02:17","modified_gmt":"2014-02-17T15:02:17","slug":"bode-miller-defends-nbc-reporters-line-of-questions-following-bronze-medal-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/2014\/02\/17\/bode-miller-defends-nbc-reporters-line-of-questions-following-bronze-medal-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Bode Miller defends NBC reporters line of questions following bronze medal win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-833\" alt=\"millercooper\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/files\/2014\/02\/millercooper.jpg\" width=\"630\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/files\/2014\/02\/millercooper.jpg 630w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/files\/2014\/02\/millercooper-300x213.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A lot of people were upset after NBC reporter Christin Cooper repeatedly pressed Alpine Skier Bode Miller on his deceased brother. Miller began to cry and ended the interview with Miller.<\/p>\n<p>But Miller has taken to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MillerBode\">twitter<\/a> to ask everyone to lay off of Cooper.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Thanks for all the support, today was one of the most emotional days of my life. I miss my brother.<\/p>\n<p>I appreciate everyone sticking up for me. Please be gentle w christin cooper, it was crazy emotional and not all her fault. #heatofthemoment<\/p>\n<p>My emotions were very raw, she asked the questions that every interviewer would have, pushing is part of it, she wasnt trying to cause pain.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/agX1qoSTaXE\" height=\"360\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Miller then defended her again on NBC\u2019s Today Show.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I\u2019ve known Christin a long time and she\u2019s a sweetheart of a person. I know she didn\u2019t mean to push\u2014I don\u2019t think she really anticipated what my reaction was going to be and I think by the time she sort of realized it, I think it was too late. And I don\u2019t really blame her at all but I feel terrible that she\u2019s taking the heat for that because really, it was just a heat of the moment kind of circumstance and I don\u2019t think there was any harm intended. It was just a lot of emotion for me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of people were upset after NBC reporter Christin Cooper repeatedly pressed Alpine Skier Bode Miller on his deceased brother. Miller began to cry and ended the interview with Miller. But Miller has taken to twitter to ask everyone to lay off of Cooper. Thanks for all the support, today was one of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[84,9],"coauthors":[5],"class_list":{"0":"post-832","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-bode-miller","9":"tag-front"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":834,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832\/revisions\/834"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}