Um, no. In multiple events he was supposed to win, he's come up short. Reputations don't come out of nothing.
So how does that constitute choking? He wasn't in the best of shape before heading to Torino. He won medals before Torino and won the World Cup, so has he really shown a tendency of choking in the past?
In all honesty I'm tired of folks who can't understand this. Bode even wins gold to show he isn't a supposed choker yet he still choked. Funny.
Del Piero, Zidane, Pele, Maradona, Beckenbauer, Muller, Di Stefano must all be chokers then.