The American Alpine skiers had boasted of winning 8 medals but in fact won only 2, nowhere near the record 14 Alpine medals won by the Austrians, whom the Americans had boldly challenged before arriving in Italy.
People hate the way he left Cleveland, people hate how he boasted of winning seven championships before he had won even one, people hate that the best basketball player on earth has a receding hairline and people who are smart like me mostly hate on the Heat because Dwayne Wade flops and complains more than almost anyone in basketball.
While swearing loyalty to Mr Putin, at home Mr Kadyrov boasts of having won independence not by fighting Moscow but by milking it.Mr Kadyrov's reaction to the arrest of Mr Dadaev suggests a hard struggle between forces previously united around Mr Putin: the FSB and his Chechen friends.
Although the current Congress has sworn off earmarking, the firm's Web site boasts of having won nearly a half-billion dollars in earmarked federal funding for clients in a recent 3-year period.
Mr Cameron had stood alone against 26 leaders in vetoing a revision of the European Union treaties, on the ground that it failed to offer safeguards for Britain's vital financial-services industry.For all the praise showered on Mr Cameron for his "British bulldog" spirit, the leader who could most boast of winning this time round was Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president.
Trey Gowdy: A former federal prosecutor who boasts of big wins in areas like drug trafficking, bank robberies, and child pornography cases, the South Carolina Republican was critical of Comey's decision last year not to prosecute Hillary Clinton.
WHEN the guns in and around Gaza fell silent a month ago, Hamas, the radical Palestinian Islamist movement that runs the enclave, boasted of having won its 50-day war with Israel.
Alex Heckler, for instance, runs a Florida consulting firm he founded, LSN Partners, which boasts of its ability to "win results for our clients" at the national, state and local levels and to tap into "a strong national network of lobbying firms" through its contacts with "key decision makers".
The film also boasts a winning cast of tastemaker favorites like Jason Bateman and Michael Cera, an A-lister flexing her small movie chops in Jennifer Garner, and surprising newcomer Ellen Page, nominated for Best Actress for her work.
