Comments on: China: Great pity for Liu's Achilles tendon

By: Twittering the Olympics: How the Games Got Mobile

Twittering the Olympics: How the Games Got Mobile — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:30:25 +0000

[...] Liu Xiang suddenly withdrew from the 110 meter hurdles, thousands of people reacted on Fanfou, such as: “Nothing in the 2008 Games could sting me more seriously than the pulling-out of Liu [...]

By: chan

chan — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 04:34:25 +0000

We really learned – It is their “human right & freedom” to bash Chinese in whatever ways they want :-) and that is certainly not a good practice at all

By: knights

knights — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 04:19:54 +0000

Dang I missed it, I would have asked the Cuban athlete to kick Bela in the Belly. . . hahahaha

By: knights

knights — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 03:40:04 +0000

I thought you people believe in Human Rights? It is Liu’s Human Rights to quit for whatever reason. Injured heels, or pressure, but it’s his right to decide. NOn of your sore losers’ business.

[big relief sigh] Now, it’s time for revenge, let’s protest when London’s torch pass by my house. . . . heheheheheh

By: The Prodigal

The Prodigal — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 03:12:14 +0000

Albeit true that western media will always look for fault or a negative twist to anything different from their status quo, Liu Xiang’s injury is at best good timing and, as a worse case scenario, fraud.

After basking in the glory of his well deserved success in Athens, the pressures Liu experienced from the high expectations of 1.3 billion Chinese, the glamor and stardom enjoyed over the past four years, and one blazing Cuban athlete (as indicated in blog #10) may have been too much for Liu to bear.

For China, the Olympics and the sport itself, I hope the possibility of fraud is never proven. That would be an even greater disgrace to the games than the Cuban Taekwando fighter kicking the referee.

By: chan

chan — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:30:04 +0000

If Liu win Gold Medal-they will say that Liu was trained in Communist Camp, ha… ha …

By: Cecksie

Cecksie — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:11:03 +0000

If it was his heel, why was he patting his shin while grimacing before the race? It was pressure from himself, coaches, govt officials, sponsors, 1.4 billion, and a smoking fast Cuban.

By: Lala

Lala — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:08:33 +0000

TO Mark:

Racist much? I agree with MuLan sooooo much.

By: knights

knights — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:15:49 +0000

So either way, the west still find stupid unimaginable ways to bash the Chinese.

Case in point:

The west: Liu did not compete, oh he’s a loser, he took the smart way out. . .

If Liu did compete, poor Liu living under Chinese human rights oppression

There you have it, either way, there’s always a good reason to bash the chinks ;-)

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 10:49:48 +0000

I second comment 4 by MuLan!
I didn’t watch much if any of the last games but I certainly knew about Liu Xiang (Who the west should learn to pronounce properly! cringe)
Even with the great success China has had this time with the medal tables and hosting well what a pity their star didn’t shine. Bad timing but yes he shouldn’t be forced to run and if he did the West would have a field day at labelling China as being ‘oppressive’

By: Chen Ying » Blog Archive » Liu come Achille. O Ulisse?

Chen Ying » Blog Archive » Liu come Achille. O Ulisse? — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:47:01 +0000

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By: Eric Hu

Eric Hu — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:58:13 +0000

It is sad, but I’m also glad we don’t need to force athletes go for competition with their broken part, like decades ago. It is an obvious advance.

By: MuLan

MuLan — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:46:34 +0000

typical American attitude/behavior

When others lose, they are losers
when Americans lose, they get cheated
it’s a harsh reality
[sigh]

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:45:31 +0000

Liu was going to lose no matter what. He took the smart way out. And he was going to lose to an American so he saved a lot of face.

By: john

john — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:51:49 +0000

delete it, pls. wrong person…