"I was consistently top five all season except for the slalom," Miller said. "It's never been a technical problem. It's a matter of execution."
As an overall champion, Miller joins such legendary skiers as Jean-Claude Killy, Ingemar Stenmark, Girardelli, Pirmin Zurbriggen, Alberto Tomba, and Hermann Maier, the Austrian who won his fourth title last season.
Mahre won three times from 1981-83. McKinney is the only American woman to win. But Miller is nothing like his predecessors.
Sarah Schleper of the US posted her first career World Cup victory in the season's final slalom race Saturday, and Janica Kostelic finished second to close in on overall leader Anja Paerson.
Paerson finished in 10th place and now has 1,359 points in the overall World Cup standings, 35 points more than Kostelic with only Sunday's season-ending giant slalom still to come. Kostelic has 1,324 points.
"Today I was watching Anja and I could see she was just trying to score points because tomorrow is her big discipline," Kostelic said.
Paerson will be favored in the giant slalom, and a win would get her another 100 points. She will also be attempting to wrap up the GS title.
"For tomorrow, there are no tactics. It's full out because there are two globes at stake," Paerson said.
"I tried to go for the win today. The first run was so-so and the second one I tried to charge, but it was a very difficult second run," said Paerson, who was third after the first leg but had the third slowest second run.
"We both know it's a game. It's not life or death. We are skiers and we know what to do. It's not like we're enemies."
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