A good reason to be a Whina' in China

You are Milorad Cavic.

You are representing the country of Serbia and Montenegro.

Your only event this 2008 Summer Olympics is the 100m fly.

You take off and gain a large lead over the rest of the field halfway through the race as Michael Phelps reaches that distance in 7th.

You come into the final wall still holding a good lead.

You coast into the wall with the realization that you just topped Michael Phelps for the gold when you look up to the big screen to see that you were out-touched. You somehow lost to Phelps by the smallest margin possible (.01 seconds).

You are Nastia Liukin.

You are competing in women's (I don't know if you can call a 14 year old Chinese "kid" a woman) gymnastics.

You just finished your uneven bar routine. You had a couple slip-ups, but still have a solid score of 16.725.

Controversy strikes when China's "woman" gymnast He Kexin, who had a few MORE slip-ups also receives a 16.725. But that's not the controversy...

So now the judges have 2 scores of 16.725. Hmmm. Oh what the heck, give the gold to the Chinese girl. The reason? Her score was "more perfect."

I think that a score that goes to the THOUSANDTH of a point is pretty specific, and if they both got the same score, how could one be "more perfect" than the other?

Perfect opportunity to whine, right?

Maybe I was the only one who did.

The fact of the matter is that I was debating how Cavic was going to reject that silver medal. Maybe he will rip it off his neck, throw it on the ground and stomp on it. Or perhaps he'd climb up the torch and throw it in the scorching fire?

No... Cavic was grinning from ear to ear after receiving that silver medal.

And Liukin? She didn't bow her head and cry. She used the loss to motivate her for her next competition.

So you see, there are no whina's in China. At least not on the from Cavic and Liukin...