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Did foreign media exaggerate to Hamilton champagne incident?

Liu Siying, Shanghai Institute of Visual Art graduate, who was a ‘podium girl' at the Chinese Grand Prix, said she didn't think much about the incident and wasn't annoyed. 'It lasted for only one or two seconds, and I didn't think too much about it,' Liu Siying told the Shanghai Daily. 'I think some foreign media are more sensitive about the topic than local media,' she added. 'I was just told by my employer to stand on the podium, and that's what I did.' Miss Siying had asked to work as a podium model on the stage of the Chinese Grand Prix in Shanghai because she was a fan of Finnish driver Kimi Raikkonen. Sunday's incident, highlighted in photographs that showed the woman flinching...
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