Miller, who won Friday's downhill, was up by 0.40 on the top half, but, charging a little hard, he got back on the tails of his skis and caught an arm on a gate, which cost him about a second and a half. He wound up in 12th place, 1.11 seconds off the pace.
"I had no rhythm," said Miller, who was visibly angry. Miller, who banged his knuckles against the gate, was checked over by doctors but no injuries were detected, a team official said.
US teammate Ted Ligety, the Olympic combined champion, climbed from fifth into third, 0.07 seconds behind the winner. Ligety grabbed his broken right hand after crossing the finish line, after hitting it on a gate. Ligety fractured it during training a month ago in Austria, while he was dragging his hand along the snow and struck the base of a gate.
"I hope it doesn't affect me in tomorrow's slalom," he said. "I might get it checked out this afternoon. But it doesn't feel the same as when I broke it. I didn't have the same shooting pain, it was a little duller pain but it still doesn't feel ideal."
Ligety earned the US team its fifth podium of the week. In yesterday's downhill, Steve Nyman took third place. Lindsey Kildow took second and first in back-to-back downhill races in Lake Louise, Canada, Friday and yesterday.
In the women's downhill competition, Kildow rocketed down a course she knows as well as any to win, finishing a whopping 1.33 seconds ahead of Austria's Renate Goetschl.
Kildow captured a downhill for the third time at Lake Louise, covering the Olympic course in 1:48.84. Goetschl followed at 1:50.17 and Sweden's Anja Paerson was third at 1:50.56.
"I didn't honestly expect to do as well," said Kildow. "I was pretty nervous in the start. I knew some of the earlier girls had good runs. I just told myself not to think about it. Just go as fast as you can."
Nordic Combined -- Magnus Moan edged Sebastian Haseney by one-10th of a second in Lillehammer, Norway, for his fifth-career World Cup victory.
