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(CNN) — Tom de la Hunty took Dutch bobsledder Edwin van Calker to the Whistler Sliding Center track one last time Tuesday and asked his driver if he could do it. He wasn’t asking him to win; he was asking him whether he could compete. The coach and his pilot walked the course, and de la Hunty told van Calker to think about it, giving him an hour to make a decision. Time offered no healing. Van Calker told his coach he just couldn’t drive this track and so on Wednesday the four-man No. 1 sled from the Netherlands pulled out of the Olympics.Because their driver was terrified. “I’ve never seen someone get to a major event and not compete because they’re scared. You keep your inner fears to yourself and do it,” de la Hunty told reporters at a news conference. “That’s why it’s such a popular sport in the military. It’s that kind of macho sport. You go over the top together.” It was a split decision among the team to quit the games, said de la Hunty, who talked about how he told his driver he was making a choice he would regret forever. “It’s a challenging and exciting track. You have to deal with it as a pilot. That comes with the job. Sometimes you deal with it less good,” he said. “It’s nothing to do with the track, just my lack of confidence at the moment.”

Well you got to hand it to the Dutch. Just when you think they couldn’t become a bigger joke or stoop any lower they do. I mean I’ve never seen a country dominate the Olympics before like they have with rudeness, sheer stupidity and cowardly behavior. Yesterday it was that speed skater dude switching lanes improperly and blaming it on everybody but himself and today we got the bobsled team quitting because they are too scared. To quote Don King… Only in the Netherlands! I wonder what all the Dutch will say now? They seemed pretty outraged last time I made fun of them for being weak and spineless, but now the proof is in the pudding. There is a reason we’re a world power and you’re not. Because when we’re faced with adversity we don’t quit.  You know what we do?  We strap on our balls, go down the bobsled and then we invade. Deal with it.