Breaking: A right achilles injury has prematurely ended Liu Xiang’s Beijing Olympic dreams. Update by Richard: It’s being broadcast live right now on CCTV - his coach Sun Haiping is crying his eyes out explaining his injury. Everyone in my... ...full story at Peking Duck
from Peking Duck on Mon, Aug 18 2008
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