Brandt Snedeker's tearful press conference after failing to win the Masters on Sunday will go down as one of the most memorable crying bouts in history.

We take a look at some other famous occasions when sportsmen and women have turned on the waterworks.

Paul Gascoigne

Gascoigne's emergence during Italia '90 helped England progress to a semi-final against West Germany. But a clumsy foul on Thomas Berthold saw him pick up his second yellow card of the tournament, meaning a suspension that would have ruled him out of the final. It was all too much for the ever-emotional Geordie, who dissolved into floods of tears. As it turned out, it didn't matter. England lost on penalties and all Gazza missed was a meaningless third place match.

Jana Novotna

The Czech needed a royal shoulder to cry on after succumbing to an extraordinary collapse against Steffi Graf in the 1993 Wimbledon final. Leading 4-1 and 40-15 in the deciding set, Novotna simply crumbled and proceeded to lose pretty much every point until she was standing on centre court with a runner-up's trophy and a Kleenex. The Duchess of Kent came to the rescue, comforting the distraught Novotna who eventually made amends by winning Wimbledon in 1998.

Sir Donald Bradman

The Don might have been the greatest cricketer ever to draw breath, but he was not a man given to unnecessary expressions of emotion. In an era when you just knuckled down and got on with it, Bradman did just that, amassing 29 centuries in 80 Test innings. However, a quivering bottom lip undid him in his final match in 1948. Needing just four to secure a career Test average of 100, he was so overcome he fell for a second-ball duck. "It's hard to bat with tears in your eyes," he remarked later.

The Argentina rugby team

The big, brutish South Americans were the surprise package of the 2007 World Cup, combining skill and flair with, well, big brutishness, to escape the Group of Death and progress to the semi-finals. There they faced South Africa and became so emotionally charged they were in pieces during their anthem. The Springboks showed no mercy, pummelling the Pumas 37-13, although Argentina recovered to beat hosts France for the second time in the tournament to secure a bronze medal.

Marion Jones

Jones was sprinting's undisputed queen during the late 90s and early 2000s. Her crowning glory came at the Sydney Olympics in 2000, when she scooped three gold and two silver medals. One slight problem: she was cheating. In 2007 Jones decided to 'fess up - but not before lying to a criminal investigation - and told all while blubbing her way through a public press conference. She was duly stripped of her medals and records, and now lives in a Texas prison.

Oliver McCall

Boxing has no shortage of headcases, but Mike Tyson was not crying when he bit Evander Holyfield's ear and promised to eat Lennox Lewis's children. Oliver McCall had beaten Lewis in 1994, but the rematch three years later descended into farce when something strange happened in the fourth round. Referee Mills Lane: "I saw his lips started to quiver and I thought, 'My God, is he crying?'" He was indeed, and the match was swiftly awarded to a bemused Lewis.

Garry Herbert

'God Save the Queen' does not rate particularly highly in the ranks of stirring anthems, but it reduced Garry Herbert to a bawling wreck at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona. Herbert had just coxed Greg and Jonny Searle to a rowing gold medal, and broke down spectacularly while standing atop the podium. Greg Searle later revealed why he was able to keep his eyes dry - for some reason he was thinking about former rugby player Mick Skinner.

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