kueh_kueh posted on 10-8-2012 08:51 AM 
saksikanlah di heat yang ke 6..sangat berdrama ok atlet china yg dikatakan superstar tuh
betul la sungguh berdrama sungguh ...aku tak percaye langsung dia jatuh cmtue..leh sakit kaki sampai terpksa berkangaroo bagai..
tp dikatakan mmg kaki beliau sakit ...pegi surgery dah
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/0 ... t-olyhurdles08.html
LONDON — As usual when Liu Xiang hurdles, it is difficult to avoid the bigger picture.
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Mark Blinch/ReutersSince he burst onto the international scene in 2004, Liu Xiang has been a symbol of China’s global sports aspirations.
On Tuesday, it was difficult not to think of all the millions upon millions watching at home with their mouths agape and their hands to their faces as Liu lay on the track in pain with another Olympics over in a flash. Liu has been as much a symbol as a competitor for nearly a decade, representing China’s, even Asia’s, global aspirations. In 2004, Liu was healthy, running free and still an outsider. The favorite in the 110-meter hurdles was Allen Johnson, the veteran American. But Johnson stumbled out in the quarterfinals, and in the final, Liu — with his formidable technique and youthful exuberance — beat everyone to the finish line to equal the world record, 12.91 seconds. He was the first Chinese man to win an Olympic gold medal in track, proof that a nation stockpiling victories in diving and table tennis could compete in a mainstream, truly global event that had traditionally been dominated by sprinters from North America and Europe. There would be other triumphs: another world record in 2006, and world indoor and outdoor titles. But he is now most indelibly linked with two races that were hardly races at all. At the 2008 Games in Beijing, Liu walked onto the track to warm up for his first round and was soon grabbing at his right heel, wincing in pain and removing the lane numbers affixed to each of his thighs. As the heat began without him, he sat slumped against a wall at the Bird’s Nest stadium that was supposed to have been the grand, avant-garde setting for the Chinese equivalent of Australia’s Cathy Freeman moment in 2000. Flash forward to Tuesday, when Liu made it out of the starting blocks in the first round but then fell at the first hurdle as his left heel on his lead leg struck the barrier in Lane 4 and he went tumbling to the track. For an athlete as finely tuned and experienced as Liu, it was too blatant a mistake to have been purely a miscalculation. Feng Shuyong, the head of the Chinese track and field team, explained that the initial diagnosis was that Liu had ruptured his right Achilles’ tendon again, perhaps on the takeoff for that first hurdle, but Feng indicated that further medical confirmation was required. “The injury is the same one he had in Beijing,” Feng said at a news conference. “In the last several years, he has had good medical care, but it is still there. An Achilles’ injury is almost impossible to recover from fully.” Feng also said that Liu is “not thinking about retiring,” but it is surely too early to be making such definitive pronouncements. It has been another triumphant Olympics for the Chinese. Late Tuesday, they still led the gold and overall medal counts. Stars like the men’s badminton player Lin Dan and swimmer Sun Yang have fulfilled hopes and expectations by winning in London. But there has also been a negative undercurrent: the unproven allegations of doping against the 16-year-old swimmer Ye Shiwen, the disqualification of a women’s doubles team in badminton for lack of effort in a group match, and the relegation of the women’s sprint team in track cycling to silver from gold after the victory celebration started. Now this happens to Liu, who remains a star apart in China. On Tuesday, China Central Television’s normally talkative race announcers were initially speechless, watching the race in silence as Liu lay on the track. One of the two men in the broadcast booth could be heard sniffling as he tried to regain his composure. “Liu Xiang is a warrior,” said the announcer Yang Jian. “He gave China 10 glorious years.” In one subway stop in central Beijing, commuters crowded the platform to watch on the television screens usually reserved for train arrival times and China Central Television’s nightly news broadcast. When Liu hit the hurdle, there was a collective gasp, then silence in the station. A train arrived, and instead of the hectic dash to the doors that typically greets the arrival of a subway in Beijing, the crowd remained still as riders filed off the train in an attempt to see what had happened. “It must be hard for that to happen for the second time in a row,” Usain Bolt said after qualifying with ease in the first round of the 200 meters. “He’s a great athlete.” Liu and the American Aries Merritt were the two leading contenders for gold, with Merritt regularly breaking 13 seconds recently in races and Liu breaking that barrier earlier this season. But he had injury concerns before London, just as he did before Beijing. “I noticed in Crystal Palace during warm-up that he was rubbing his Achilles’,” the British hurdler Andrew Turner said of the meet in July in London. “I knew then that he had a problem, and in warm-up today, I knew he was not quite with it.” In a country where numerology is serious business, it hardly went unnoticed that Liu was wearing the same bib number on Tuesday — 1356 — as he was wearing at the Olympics in 2008. Clearly, it is time for a change in Rio de Janeiro in 2016. The question is, will Liu — the athlete and the symbol who is now 29 — make it to Rio? Jacob Fromer contributed reporting from Beijing.
A version of this article appeared in print on August 8, 2012, on page B14 of the New York edition with the headline: For Chinese Hurdler, An Achilles’ Heel Again Lives Up to Its Name.
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Post time 10-8-2012 10:37 AM
....bila-bila mase je boleh terberanak kt situ
Last edited by mizsela on 10-8-2012 11:44 AM 
...kalau tgk kt CARI la..tak update ke..mmg tak berubah
