Dear Bode: If you want to have a ...

Dear Bode:

If you want to have a beer or sum of two units before Saturday's slalom, go right ahead.

Maybe, as you told "60 Minutes", skiing down a mountain drunken or hungover isn't so bad.

Because, frankly portend you're not cutting it sober.

Fourth-place in the downhill? DQ in the combined? DNF in the Super G?

And now sixth in Monday's giant slalom?

That's four of your five facts If you flame out again Saturday, yours officially will be the biggest Olympic flop since Dick Fosbury's.

The giant slalom is a combination of spe finesse and daring. It was suppos to fit you exquisitely -- unlike, by the way, that close faux-Spiderman costume you wear. Maybe a tailor -- or a surgeon -- could allow it out a little?

Sure you apply the minded more like your old self in the other run. But it takes brace to win ...