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Barreling down icy mountainsides with abandon, his skis chattering in protest, his heart free.

That’s how Bode Miller won Olympic gold in the men’s combined race today. But it’s also how he used to ski as a tyke on the cold, shady slopes of New Hampshire’s Cannon Mountain when no one was looking.

And what made him most thrilled today was not the color of his medal – his third this week – but the fact that despite all that was riding on his skis today, he was able to put that all aside and ski with the same joy and freedom he had back then.

“When I ski like that, it’s how I used to ski when I was little,” said Miller, after coming back from seventh in the downhill this morning to lay down an amazing slalom run. “You’re not thinking about all the things that old people are supposed to think about.”