China's Olympic hero Liu Xiang has apologised to his distraught fans for the Achilles injury that forced him out of the 110m hurdles. ...full story at Sky News
from Sky News on Wed, Aug 20 2008
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China: Great pity for Liu's Achilles tendon » Global Voices The national hero, 110-metre hurdles world champion Liu Xiang quitted the game this morning, leaving shock, regret, and mysteries. |
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Liu Xiang pulls out of Olympics with injury » Peking Duck 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... |
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Liu Xiang out » James Reynolds In case you hadn't heard, Liu Xiang is out. China's great Olympic hope - the country's most famous athlete - pulled out of the 110m hurdles because he was injured. I was in the stadium when it all happened - peering through a set of hefty binoculars from... |
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Biggest news of the Olympics for China: Liu Xiang is out » James Fallows Incredible. During the entirety of our past two years in China, Liu Xiang has been the face of the upcoming Olympic games. He is China's greatest-ever track and field athlete, defending Olympic gold medalist in the 110m hurdles, the man whose smile... |
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China 'moves on' from Liu Xiang » James Reynolds You might think there'd be a period of national sporting mourning here for Liu Xiang (China's most famous sportsman, who pulled out of the 110m hurdles on Monday) - black drapes placed across his many advertisement, vigils on the street, a ban on public... |
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