Champion skier Bode Miller forced to hand over son in court The interim ruling allowed Ms McKenna to keep her child until the next hearing on December 9 when Mr Miller will take a break from training for the Sochi Winter Olympics to resume the custody battle. Two months earlier, Ms McKenna was in turn forced to hand the boy to his father following a court ruling that criticised her for moving to New York from California while pregnant as the result of a brief romance. That court decision, which in effect blamed Ms McKenna for absconding with her fetus without the agreement of a man with whom she had a brief romance, outraged women's rights groups. It was little wonder that the infant seemed confused as he was passed between parents who cannot even agree on his name: Ms McKenna calls him Samuel and Mr Miller prefers Nathaniel. "I've missed him so much," Ms McKenna said as she played with the boy after the hearing. He's got a tooth and he can crawl and I didn't even know. Mr Miller said he still hoped to take his son to Sochi. "The Olympics are such a unique once-in-a-lifetime opportunity," he said. I know he'll only be young, but it's so family-friendly and we'll have all the memories and pictures. Mr Miller, 36, and his wife, 26, flew into New York from Austria, where the skier has been taking part in the World Cup as he prepares for a final crack at Olympic glory. Ms McKenna, 27, is studying at Columbia university in New York with a federal grant for former military personnel. She denies Mr Miller's claims that she moved to New York to seek a more supportive court. A panel of New York appeal judges this month overturned the previous ruling against her. "Putative fathers have neither the right nor the ability to restrict a pregnant woman from her constitutionally protected liberty," the judges said. Mr Miller, who was long as famous for his speed on the slopes as his party boy antics of them, met Ms McKenna through a dating agency in California, where they both lived at the time.