they announced the serbs are protesting the results.
My reponse on another thread:
There are sore losers, and there are sore losers.
Hey, Warren, here's something for you: Duje Draganja lost the gold in the 50 free by .01 to Gary Hall Jr. If Croatia had protested the result, would you have supported it, believing that no Race Club swimmer ever loses a race, or is your Race Club bias too strong to simply understand that Phelps simply touched the wall .01 ahead of Cavic?
Cavic has been around a long time. Surely he's lost races by .01 before. I've lost major races by that much, and I simply knew that what I saw on the scoreboard was reality. That's the nature of swimming. It's as objective as it gets.
The touchpads ... do ... not ... lie.
And if it wasn't Cavic that initiated the protest, the people who did certainly know that races can be won and lost in the Olympics by .01. They should have been happy to know that Cavic was to be remembered as the man who almost derailed the Phelps train. But with this protest, all that has happened is that Cavic and Serbia have now been cast in a bad light.
I understand if Cavic is mad. Eamon Sullivan was mad that he lost the 100 free, but he didn't go running to the officials to claim the wall in his lane was 1 millimeter further than Bernard's.
If Cavic had been the gracious silver medalist, he would be revered and celebrated for many years. Biographies of Phelps would not be complete without celebrating the swim. But now, if his name is in a book about Phelps, I can't imagine it will be very positive. No one else was closer to Phelps in an individual race.
I have nothing but the utmost respect for the Race Club. Gary Hall Sr. and Jr. are good friends. I do hope Cavic's actions don't hurt their reputation.
my heart was popping out of my chest, I'm still shaking from watching that, he is insane, just the amount of events he swam and just the level of competition, theyre were guys who specialized in just certain events and he still beat them, unbelievable
I'm so pissed right now. Why didn't Cavic take an extra kick at the end instead of floating. Another miricle for phelps...
Cavic opened his big mouth. Kiss of death.
