Did I just witness the biggest choke in New Zealand sporting history? Oh yes I did. Massive choke, the New Zealand men's hockey team, the world's biggest losers.
Candidates for the title of biggest choke include Team New Zealand's effort competing for the America's Cup on San Francisco Bay, losing in staggering fashion to Oracle. Then there is the Rugby World Cup quarter-final loss to France in 2007. But they pale in comparison to Rio 2016 and the NZ men's hockey team quarter-final against Germany.
Why so bad? NZ were up 2-0. The winner would be playing for a medal.
It was all or nothing and the Germans were becoming desperate. They took their goalie off to add an extra player. Holy shit batman, NZ had an open goal.
The Kiwis couldn't score again, worse than that, they gave up possession repeatedly and even managed to get a player sin-binned for time wasting. That put them down to 9 against 11, fine, but NZ still had their goalie - eh. But in the final 1.5 seconds, Germany scores to win the game. Germany drained 3 goals into the NZ net from 2-0 down going into the fourth quarter. Even if the game ended in a draw the match would have gone to a penalty shoot out, and an almost certain win for the Kiwis as Germany chose to end the game without a goalie.
Unbelievable. How could any team lose from the position NZ were in? Only the Kiwis can pull off such a staggering piece of utterly disgraceful cowardice. They capitulated completely, didn't even whimper.
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