Bode Miller will be packing a diaper bag along with his skis when he heads to the Winter Olympics in February.
The champion skier hashed out a temporary custody deal with his ex-girlfriend Monday in Manhattan Family Court that will allow him to take their 9-month old son to Sochi, Russia, to see his famous dad compete in his final Olympic Games.
“We’re psyched!” the five-time medalist gushed outside Manhattan Family Court.
He called the trip a “unique, once-in-a-lifetime experience.”
The Olympian had lost temporary custody of Bode Jr. last month and was scheduled to testify to get him back on Monday.
Instead a small army of attorneys for Miller and his ex, retired Marine Sara McKenna, had a marathon negotiating session and worked out a cooperative parenting plan through the end of March.
McKenna, who’s studying pre-law at Columbia University on the GI Bill, said she was “extremely happy” with the arrangement.
The former couple also agreed to call the little one Samuel Bode Miller McKenna and worked out details of the custody swap congenially in the hallway of the courthouse after meeting with a judge.
Miller had wanted to name the child after his brother Nathaniel, an extreme snowboarder who died in his mobile home in California last spring.
Details about the agreement were not disclosed to the public but McKenna’s attorney said, “There were compromises on both sides.”
McKenna, dressed for the custody hearing in a black suit and teetering on strappy stilettos, had previously opposed the transatlantic trip because her young son had not yet been immunized.
Miller, who met McKenna through the high-end dating service Kelleher, is now married to professional volleyball player Morgan Beck. They live together in San Diego,.
He had won round one in the cross-country custody battle over Bode Jr. in September after Manhattan Family Court Referee Fiordaliza Rodriguez ruled that McKenna was “irresponsible and reprehensible” for moving to New York to pursue her education while pregnant with Miller’s baby.
Rodriguez said a California court should handle the case.
An appeals court tossed the decision in November.
The parties are due back in court on March 31.