Skier faces uphill battle to regain custody of child

He’s renowned for his downhill prowess, but a celebrity US skier is facing an uphill struggle to wrest custody of his son from the child’s mother.

It is a custody battle that has gripped the US, with the mother of the child effectively being accused of kidnapping her own child before it was even born.

Olympic gold medallist Bode Miller had an affair with a former Marine, Sara McKenna, last year during which they conceived the now eight-month-old son.