Eighth place? Eighth fucking place?!?!?! I know Adam Van Koeverden let up a little after he realized he wasn’t going to medal, but I could be having the same reaction if he finished fourth. There were three men who were head and shoulders above the field: Van Koeverden, Tim Brabants, and Erik Larsen, and Van [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘choke artists’
August 22, 2008
Thomas Hall is the new Adam Van Koeverden; Adam Van Koeverden is the new Brent Hayden
August 14, 2008
My love for Nastia Liukin knows no bounds
My introduction to Nastia Liukin came a couple of years ago when she had a rather large cameo in the gymnastics move Stick it (tagline: It’s not called gym-nice-stics). I remember realizing then that she was clearly the best gymnast in the movie, as well as significantly taller than the rest of them (even though [...]
July 20, 2008
The more things change, the more Greg Norman chokes in the final round of a Major
53-year-old Greg Norman, the Shark, captivated middle-aged golfing fans everywhere this past week, as he turned back the clock for three rounds, to hold the lead in a major. Had he been able to hold out today and retain the lead, it might have been the greatest performance by an over-the-hill former star ever at [...]
