On Chinese hurdler Liu Xiang's completely unexpected withdrawal from a competition today, rapid-response blogger He Caitou posted simply this comment from another post on Baidu:
前天晚上作了一个梦，梦见刘翔召开新闻发布会，宣布因为伤病不得已决定退出本届奥运会，并向所有关心支持自己的朋友道歉。
很奇怪的一个梦，然后第二天就看到刘翔脚伤的报道，不知道这会不会是真的。
请保留此帖，勿删，虽然我也是刘翔的粉丝，也希望他能参加并且成功卫冕。
The day before yesterday I had a dream, and I dreamt that Liu Xiang was holding a press conference, saying that due to injury he had no choice but to make the decision to pull out of the Olympic Games, and with that he apologized to all his caring supporters and friends.
A very strange dream, but then the next day I saw reports of Liu Xiang's foot injury, and I didn't know if they were real.
Please preserve this comment, do not delete it. I too am a fan of Liu Xiang's, and I hope to see him compete and successfully defend his championship.
A very strange dream, but then the next day I saw reports of Liu Xiang's foot injury, and I didn't know if they were real.
Please preserve this comment, do not delete it. I too am a fan of Liu Xiang's, and I hope to see him compete and successfully defend his championship.
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好快的手, John! Seems you are watching this also. You agree to the conspiratory theory?
heh…not a strange dream…I also dreamed that Kennedy is going to pick up this topic and not the 8 gold China took yesterday ;)
No. I’m sure that whoever wrote that in fact had the dream they describe, but…yikes we are in trouble if people’s dreams start coming true. Shanghaiist makes a good point, that Liu had been having foot/leg trouble since last month.
JK,
You might be wrong on that,netizens on Strong Nation think otherwise.
Below are postings from Strong Nation Forum 强國 http://www.people.com.cn
其实,我预感到了刘翔临阵脱逃,只是没敢发出来~~~.果真成了现实. 相信有很多人有和我有同样的感觉~~ ( 一语论天下 08-08-18 13:39:50 ) 51字 ( 0/0/0 )
To tell the truth,I had feeling that he was going to be a deserter,just didn’t dare to say it out.It really happened like I thought.I believe many people had the same feeling like I had.
退塞可以接受,但是欺骗不能接受! ( 茉莉姐姐 08-08-18 13:40:48 ) 0字 ( 0/0/0 )
Withdraw can be accepted,but cheating cannot!
可以接受不能得到冠军，可以接受受伤不能比赛，但不可以接受被蒙骗和临阵逃脱。不能接受在场上那么显摆一下就逃掉！可以早说呀！做so吗？ ( 踏上归途 08-08-18 13:38:43 ) 0字 ( 0/4/0 )
We can accept the fact that he is not going to be No.1,can accept he could not go into the competition because of injury,but we cannot accept being hoodwinked and cheated,while he deserted just before the fight.We cannot accept him deserted the field after coming to the field for a brief moment.What a cheat.
刘翔也只是个任人摆布的玩具而已 ( 中华默雷 08-08-18 13:38:18 ) 0字 ( 0/20/0 )
Liu Xiang is just a toy,to be put here and there by someone.
明知坚持不了，何必要那么多人空等一回？那叫自私！ ( 踏上归途 08-08-18 13:40:57 ) 0字 ( 0/3/0 )
He knew he couldn’t go on anymore,is it necessary to have so many people waiting in vain? That is called selfishness!
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如果中国人再以刘翔这种狗熊为骄傲,中国人是不是有点太傻毙了 ( 兰陵美酒 08-08-18 13:39:29 ) 0字 ( 0/1/0 )
If Chinese is still feel proud of coward like him,then Chinese are all a bit stupid.(Well, 傻毙 is a much stronger term than “stupid”)
急求答案：期待了一年的大片，忽然说胶片沾水不能放了，你是什么感觉？ ( 雪夜行舟 08-08-18 13:36:38 ) 33字 ( 0/13/0 )
Tell me right now:We have waited for a whole year for this block buster,suddenly were told the film is damaged beyond repaired,how do you feel?
那个记者说：昨天晚上我得到了最后的确认，刘翔那天的成绩接近了12秒80 今天就突然撤退，会不会是因为别的问题啊 ( 二脚猫 08-08-18 13:36:20 ) 0字 ( 0/32/0 )
That reporter said:Last night I got the final confirmation,Liu Xiang”s that day’s result was approaching 12 sec 80, today he withdraws suddenly, can it be because of other problems?
刘翔还是飞人吗? ( 贫困之人 08-08-18 13:35:54 ) 54字 ( 0/5/1 )
Is Liu Xiang still the “flying man”?
# 他还飞得起来吗，他的腿已被罗伯斯吓伤了， ( 兰陵美酒 08-08-18 13:37:35 ) 0字 ( 0/1/0 )
Can he still fly?His foot injury was caused by the threat from Roberts.
usa would of owned that person anyways no threat whats so ever whose heard of that person……..hmmmmmm oh thats right no one
I had a dream about about Ham brothers falling out of the men’s gymnastic team competition.
comon jk, you like to post ‘dreams’ w/c are negative in nature, when it’s about Chinese.
ali baba
Each time you post those long long long winded messages from double negative corners, I can not help thinking of a word - Masturbating.
Carry on. Dont stop, it will make your wet dream come true and make you fingers stronger.
@subjectivelistener,
Completely uncalled-for, take it elsewhere if that’s the best you can come up with.
《史记·秦始皇本纪》：“赵高欲为乱，恐群臣不听，乃先设验，持鹿献于 二世，曰：‘马也。’二世笑曰：‘丞相误邪？谓鹿为马。’问左右。左右或言马，以阿顺赵高；或言鹿者。高因阴中诸言鹿者以法。后群臣皆畏高。
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Senior minister Zhou Gao wanted to rebel against the emperor,he set up a test for other ministers,to find out how many would supported him.He brought a deer in front of the emperor,and said:”This is a horse”.The emperor laughed:”Senior minister how wrong can you be?This is a deer,and yet you call it a horse.”
Emperor then started asking other minister’s opinions.Some ministers did not dare to offend Zhou Gao,said it is a horse.Those who said it is a deer,were all murdered by Zhou Gao one by one.
After that incident,all the ministers were afraid of Zhou Gao.
Subjectivelistener,and all those Wo Mao Dang bloggers,are modern day Zhou Gao.
Modern day 奴才.Boot-lickers.
http://qq0526.blogspot.com/2008/05/jb.html
The above blogger is from Taiwan.When I was reading it,just cannot stop laughing.
基里巴斯國->基巴國->雞巴國->JB國->基國
The above terms are used extensively on Chinese BBS,blogs,and forums,to substitue one nation.If you can read Chinese,you know what these terms stand for.
基里巴斯國（The Republic of Kiribati），全稱為基里巴斯人民共和國。 簡稱基國。
獨立日：4月1日獨立日：4月1日
Date of independent:1-April.
國旗：中間為一隻烏骨雞。 這是基國的國鳥。
National flag:A black bone chicken,which is the national bird.(ali baba said:in Chinese,black and none sound the same,so it is a no-bone chicken.烏 = 无
首都：塔瑪地（Tamadi）(他妈?)
@John Kennedy
As moderator, you have right not to publish my post. I can accept that. However, if you publish it, that means my post passed your minimum acceptance criteria. If it passed your minimum criteria, you need to explain what do you mean by “go elsewhere”.
- no more in this thread?
- no more in any thread by John Kennedy?
- no more in globalvoicesonline.com?
It is not the best I can come out to describe what ali baba has been doing to his country. But it is the most humerous way I can think of without offending him in a political way. If you can not deal with the rough edge of Chinese-go-speech-of-freedom, DONT PREACH.
Is that you who posted xtube.com in one of the post?
@ ali baba
Your behavior here, which keeps on tarnishing your country’s reputation in exchange for the favor of people like John Kennedy, is a typical “Modern day 奴才.Boot-lickers.”
I have tried not to go to those offensive political words but you started the game. Let me tell you what I really think people like you:
- 民族败类，or, 丧家的出卖灵魂的乏走狗。
Sad for Liu, sad for China, sad for some of the posters. Sometimes no talent may be better than misdirected talents. Creative name calling definitely requires talent.
@ subjectivelistener;
Some perspective on ali baba. He is a Falun Goner. Hope that explains your insight about ali baba’s extrordinarily strong fingers.
@ ali baba;
I see some Kool-Aid in your future. My advise to you is to run as fast as you can — run like the wind — when you see Master Li coming with the Kool-Aid tray. Don’t just work on them fingers. Work on them legs too.
Ben,
Keep your sadness to yourself,your sadness belongs to you, don’t give it to other people beacuse would not help to reduce your level of sadness, most of the chinese people are very understanding, Very reasonable, and has faith on him. Sadness does hnot help.
To all you Wo Mao Dang.
Another Liu Xiang,another Yeo Ming,45 gold medals,even if China can round up all the medals,gold,silver and bronze,so what?
Would it make CHINA a modern sports nation?
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1644120,00.html
Article on time.com
China’s Disposable Athletes
Tuesday, Jul. 17, 2007 By JODI XU/BEIJING
china sports athletes
When Zou Chunlan 邹春兰 left school to become a professional athlete, her recruiting coach assured the 13-year-old that the nation’s huge sports bureaucracy would look after her for the rest of her life. All she had to worry about was winning. For a decade, Zou followed his advice, winning the 48-kg national weightlifting title in 1990 when she was 19 years old and pocketing four other national championships. But when she retired in 1993, Zou discovered that the coach’s side of the bargain wasn’t going to be met. After three years of menial jobs in the women’s weightlifting team’s kitchen, she was asked to leave.
With her little education and total ignorance of the real world, Zou had little choice but to turn to physical labor. After stints carrying sacks on a construction site and selling lamb kebabs in the street, she ended up as a masseuse in a public bathhouse earning $60 a month. Her fate isn’t unusual. A weightlifting coach explained to the Beijing News that Zou wasn’t the only retired weightlifter struggling with the real world. “Zou’s national medals are worthless. There are world champions who end up jobless after retirement.”
The system that is so good at churning out Olympic medalists seems to be even better at producing poverty-stricken retired athletes. Last year, China’s national news agency Xinhua reported that almost half of 6,000 professional athletes retiring from competition each year end up jobless or without further schooling plans. Among them, the winner of the 1999 Beijing International Marathon Ai Dongmei, 26, who announced last year that she had no choice but to sell off her medals so that she could feed her family. Former Asian weightlifting champion Cai Li died of pneumonia at age 33 after he couldn’t afford to pay his medical bills. Liu Fei, a seven-time national champion and world champion in acrobatic gymnastics, struggles to live on the $20 she earned monthly from tutoring gymnastics.
According to the China Sports Daily, nearly 80% of China’s 300,000 retired athletes are struggling with joblessness, injury or poverty. Many athletes suffer from sports injuries and health problems caused by their training. Zou came out of the system with her own appalling legacy. She says the pills she was required to take made her grow a beard and develop a prominent Adam’s apple and a deep voice. “My coach told me it was a nutrition booster. I trusted him,” Zou says. The steroids also made her infertile. Now, she must shave every couple of days.
http://news.boxun.com/forum/200808/boxun2008b/3722.shtml
主题：世界冠军中国艾冬梅摆地摊 生活所迫冠军卖奖牌“孩子再当运动员就把她的腿打折”
Sports, indeed, is to check who is the fittest, rather than who is the most famous. It is very common in sports that some athelets are less fit than others no matter how good they were. Liu Xiang is no exceptional.
It is a pity for Liu Xiang, but far from sadness. He is sad but audience should not.
In fact, as a Chinese living outside China, I am pretty comfortable when Lang Ping led the victory of US volley ball team over China in front of President of China, that is the beauty of the sports.
I admit my patience ran dry when I saw some loser’s nagging. This is beyond sports. Still, I wish appologize if some folks feel uncomfortable about my posts. (Just that, my appology excludes ali baba.)
(1) Last year, China’s national news agency Xinhua reported that almost half of 6,000 professional athletes retiring from competition each year end up jobless or without further schooling plans.
(2) According to the China Sports Daily, nearly 80% of China’s 300,000 retired athletes are struggling with joblessness, injury or poverty. Many athletes suffer from sports injuries and health problems caused by their training.
To all you Wu Mao Dang, subjectivelistener,so_damn_lame,and others,the above 2 quotes,both come from official Chinese News agencies,both are very serious problems.Why is it that all of you “Love China” bloggers never ever say anything about these 2 topics?
Is it because they have retired,they are not CHINESE anymore?
Is it because you Wu Mao Dang,are only capable of foul mouth name calling,are incapable to engage in any meaningful discussion?
Regardless of what really happened or why, Liu Xiang now has a great chance to be a hero again. He can strive for the next Olympics - and show his country what a true Olympic Champion is - one who overcomes the greatest difficulty to achieve his or her best. The Olympics is about struggle and challenge and redemption thru sport. China claims it protects the Olympic Spirit, now its hero Liu Xiang alone has the one true opportunity to show the world that China indeed understands what the Olympic spirit is. He must continue and run in London. EVen if he doesn’t win Gold, he will have become a hero again. It is his duty, it is his fate. It was and is and has always been his destiny I think. This achievement will be greater than all the Gold medals he could have won in Beijing. I am not a big fan of Liu Xiang but I am a big fan of China, and now Liu can show the world that China is truly a great country.
@ali baba
I am no longer one of the 50 cents guys. I got a paid raise. I am one of the 60 cent guys now.
Anyhow, I see that you are still only working on them fingers. You got to work on them legs too. Working the genie out that lamp of yours ain’t going to help you when Master Li comes with that Kool-Aid tray.
Also, that last line about engaging in meaningful discussion was freaking hilarious, especially when it is coming from you.
So_damn_lame,
Liu Xiang is a human being,ok,he is a hero,he got medals.
What about Yang Jia? He is a human being too,no more,and no less than Liu Xiang a human being.Now he is being prosecuted in a secret court,outside the eyes of the media,shouldn’t we also care for him?
Hmm…Mr Racist,
Maybe because he killed 6 people?