Breaking News: Liu Xiang Crashed Out In 100m Hurdles! ...

[po2wq]

as per title ...

 

[laksaboy]

He crashed out in Beijing 2008 too.

Overhyped choke artist.

 

[po2wq]

his leg hit a hurdle n fell ...

 

[erection2015]

crap....buikia would have beaten him in that race.

 

[Fishypie]

Gosh..from Hero to Zero !!

 

[Equalisation]

eerrr ...balls too heavy ?

 

[Raiders]

Fucked too much. Legs no strength.

 

[po2wq]

 

[Narong Wongwan]

He and Asafa Powell can hold hands be brothers

 

[yellowarse]

Technically he's the greatest hurdler of all time.

But he's a choker - all in the mind.

 

[halsey02]

The hurdles too high for Chinese...lower it by 1m, he will be world best!

 

[yellowarse]

Reuters
China's Liu Xiang crashed out of the 110 metre hurdles at the London Olympics on Tuesday in a dramatic echo of Beijing




LONDON — China’s Liu Xiang crashed out of the heats in the 110 metre hurdles at the London Olympics on Tuesday in a dramatic echo of his injury-induced withdrawal from the same stage of the Beijing Games four years ago.
The 2004 Olympic champion and former world record holder hit the first hurdle with his lead leg and tumbled to the ground before being helped from the track with his dream of regaining the title in tatters.
Liu’s American rival Aries Merritt described it as a “tragedy”.


“It was just terrible. That it happens to one of the best hurdlers of all time is just a tragedy,” Merritt told reporters.
“In the hurdles, if you hit a hurdle in the competition to recover is almost impossible. It is just a shame it had to happen to Liu because I was looking forward to competing against him.”
China’s first male gold medallist on the Olympic track, Liu remains one of his country’s most popular sportsmen alongside former basketball player Yao Ming.
The 29-year-old is still plagued by the Achilles injury that forced him to pull out at the Bird’s Nest in Beijing but he had hit a rich vein of form this year.
A blistering run of 12.97 seconds in his hometown of Shanghai was his first run under 13 seconds in five years and he backed that up with a 12.87 run in Oregon, which would have tied the Dayron Robles’s world record but for an illegal wind.
The first indication that the injury demons might have returned came when he pulled out of last month’s London Grand Prix, “a precaution” his camp said.
On a cool morning in London, China’s vast media corps had streamed into the Olympic Stadium and waited expectantly for the sixth and final heat.
“He had a good warm up and was happy,” Merritt added. “I don’t think anything was wrong with him.
“I just think he made a small little mistake and ran up on the hurdle a little too quickly and wasn’t prepared to take the hurdle at such a velocity.”
A supreme technician in the high hurdles, Liu barely even brushes the barriers during a race so it is likely that injury, nerves or a combination of both contributed to such a major error.
“We know Liu Xiang has been suffering with his Achilles,” said British former hurdle Colin Jackson, whose world record Liu equalled in his gold medal run in Athens eight years ago.
“He had to push hard and when you have to reach for the first barrier and you’ve got a stress injury like an Achilles it can cause you hell and he couldn’t even take off.”
Liu’s biggest rival, Cuba’s defending champion Robles, had earlier looked comfortable as he eased into the semi-finals in 13.33 seconds despite missing most of this season through injury.
Merritt, the form hurdler this year with three runs of 12.93 seconds, stormed through to win his heat in 13.07 seconds, the fastest first-round time at an Olympics.
His compatriot and world champion Jason Richardson, who has also run under 13 seconds this year, won his heat in 13.33.
Britain’s Andy Turner came through the chaos caused by Liu’s fall to win the heat in 13.42 seconds and then helped the limping Chinese off the track.
“The guy is probably the best hurdler in history,” Turner said. “I have so much respect for him. It was horrible seeing him limp off like that so you got to go and help him.
“He is a nice guy and I would not wish that on my worst enemy.”

 

[kopiuncle]

This is damned too coincidental lah! I think he need to see a psychologist to overcome his fear, his phobias and I think for his own health, better give up.Far too much stress ...too much pressure and just too much hot air!!!! Poor fella i must pity him!!! He holds the world's best time!!!!!!!!!!shitolah !!! what a let down!!! hitting the hurdle and fell and crumbled......something must be very wrong with him or his coacho or something lah....what a disappointment.....pay to see him fall down! and crashed out!

 

[kopiuncle]

Technically he's the greatest hurdler of all time.

But he's a choker - all in the mind.

something went wrong in his mind....just could take all the publicity and world's expectations of him...crashed out, not once but twice!!!!!!!!!! world's best hurdler crashed out twice at the olympics!!!

 

[scbccb]

His win in Athens was a pure fluke but if he ran for Singapore he would have won RMB 4.5 million.

something went wrong in his mind....just could take all the publicity and world's expectations of him...crashed out, not once but twice!!!!!!!!!! world's best hurdler crashed out twice at the olympics!!!

 

[kopiuncle]

His win in Athens was a pure fluke but if he ran for Singapore he would have won RMB 4.5 million.

i don't know whether is sponsors and advertisements endorsements will be affected....he is china's hero!!!!!!but suddenly, like this.why like this? too stress i supposed.too much pressure. maybe if offered better incentives, he might just make it!!!

so singapore's policy is right lor??

 

[yellowarse]

His win in Athens was a pure fluke but if he ran for Singapore he would have won RMB 4.5 million.

Wasn't a fluke lah. He's widely regarded as the greatest hurdler of all time technique-wise, and he holds the fastest time in the world this year, including equalling the world record.

But he's also the greatest choker of his generation. The reason he won in Athens (equalling the world record then) was he was a relative unknown then, so no pressure. Once the pressure piles on with subsequent fame and achievement, he flops on the world's biggest stage.

 

[kopiuncle]

Wasn't a fluke lah. He's widely regarded as the greatest hurdler of all time technique-wise, and he holds the fastest time in the world this year, including equalling the world record.

But he's also the greatest choker of his generation. The reason he won in Athens (equalling the world record then) was he was a relative unknown then, so no pressure. Once the pressure piles on with subsequent fame and achievement, he flops on the world's biggest stage.

at long last, some sensible post. thank you.

 

[Extremist]

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Liu xiang is the winner, he sure know how to capture the world's attention and market himself from the injury. Starts ard 21:00

 

[chorut]

1.3 billion expectations on one person is alot of stress.