ARE, Sweden (AP) – The last time Bode Miller went to the world championships, he performed a rollicking one-legged downhill caper, snatched both speed titles and upstaged the Austrian “Wunderteam” in their signature events.

This time, Miller wants to become the first skier to collect world championship gold medals in all five disciplines. The championships begin this weekend in Are, Sweden.

After winning the downhill and super-G at the 2005 worlds and the giant slalom and combined gold medals in 2003, Miller is only missing the slalom gold.

“I think it’s as realistic as anything else,” Miller said of winning the slalom title. “If I get to the finish line I’ve shown in the past I have as much speed as anybody in the world.”

On Tuesday, Miller scraped through both two slalom runs in Schladming, Austria, marking the first time he’d completed a slalom in more than a year. Although he has five career World Cup slalom victories, the last one came Dec. 13, 2004 in Sestriere, Italy.

“It’s going to be a challenging set of races, because there are a lot of guys with a huge amount of speed,” said Miller, who won the 2005 overall title. “And at something like the world championships everyone has the gas pedal all the way to the floor. I think you’re going to see some surprise winners.”

Olympic combined champion Ted Ligety and Steven Nyman, the winner of the prestigious Val Gardena downhill, are both fully recovered from health problems and easily could add to the U.S. medal tally.

Ligety, slowed down after a hand injury this year, is still a top slalom skier and also will race the giant slalom and aim to confirm his combined gold at Turin.

“The hand is 100 percent for everything I do,” said Ligety, who injured it early this season. “I don’t want to get in a bar fight with it.”

Nyman – third on the Birds of Prey course in December before winning the downhill in Val Gardena, Italy a few weeks later – has been hampered by a hamstring injury and a bone bruise on his tibia.

“I’ve had bad luck ever since I won,” Nyman said. “But I’m feeling good now.”

So he’s dreaming big.

“Downhill I’m definitely expecting stuff. If there are no medals in downhill, I’ll be disappointed,” he said. “It’s something I can definitely do, and I’ve proven that this season.”

Scott Macartney and Marco Sullivan are the other members of the U.S. speed team.

But they’ll have to contend with Miller, the winner of two downhills and two super-Gs this season. The 29-year-old’s best chances come in the speed events.

At the last worlds in Bormio, Miller won the downhill and super-G, jolting the powerful Austrians.

But he stole the show when he lost a ski just 15 seconds into the downhill leg of the combined event, continuing most of the way down the slope on one ski and before falling on his rump.

Miller had considered not defending his downhill title, because he’s worried about re-injuring his left knee on one of the big jumps on the Olympia course.

But Miller, who has had knee problems in recent years, decided to race after discussing course conditions with his coaches. He finished second in the downhill race and won the super-G on that course at the finals in Are last season.