Plushenko whines about loss

In the Winter Olympics, certain things are dependable...the lighting of the torch, the international panorama, tears at the medal ceremonies, and the Russians complaining about the judging when they don't win a gold medal.

It starts again. The South Korean short track team has already complained that Apolo Ohno did not deserve a medal, that he had fouled them during the race. Well he wouldn't have won a medal if the Koreans didn't take each other out. And video of the race showed the Koreans trying to give Ohno the Malachi crunch.

Now the Russians are coming. It must be so frustrating when the Russians can't control the judging and fix it themselves as they have in the past.

Yevgeny Plushenko finished just behind American Evan Lysacek for the gold medal, and rather than be a gracious champion who lost out in a scoring system that he was well aware of before he took the ice, he whined like the spoiled primadonna he truly is. Plushenko said, "You can't be considered a true men's champion without a quad. For someone to stand on top of the podium with the gold medal around his neck by just doing triple jumps, to me it's not progress, it's a regress because we've done triples 10 or even 20 years ago," Shut up Yevgeny! The Russians would rather have the days back when they controlled the judges and fixed it for themselves:

1980 Ice Dance - The Hungarian pair of Krisztina Regoczy and Andras Sallay received five first place votes, the Soviet pair of Natalya Linichuk and Gennady Karponosov also received five first place votes as the British judge voted the same score for both. Seems like a tie, right? Well, not exactly, as the Soviet judge put the Hungarians in third place behind the second Soviet couple, giving the gold to the USSR.

2002 - Alimzhan Tokhtakhtunov, alleged Russian mobster, allegedly bribed judges to fix events at the Salt Lake Olympics. However, the Italians did not extradite him to the US, as the FBI had been investigating him. Oh by the way, the Italians took the bronze.

The Russians complained about the ladies event in 2002 and 2006 when the heavy footed Irina Slutskaya lost in both Olympics.

Here's what to look for in ice dance: the Russians are likely to offend some group in their original dance and complain about the judging should they not win the gold.