Liu Xiang is a class act……….a real gentlemen.

Liu Xiang is only an ordinary person

This is no doubt the most shocking news for people who care for Liu Xiang. Had never imaged he would end the Olympic this way. As a fan, I feel painful, but I am sure Liu Xiang is suffering more from this decision. I like Liu Xiang,not only because he is one of the most excellent sportsmen, but because the shinny smile always seen on his face! I want to say to Liu Xiang, giving up is also a very brave choice, and we are all looking forward to seeing your shinny smiles very soon! Take care!

I pray for your safety and hope that you can fully recover from your injury. People all over the world care for you and think of you as a hero. You’re a brave man to face obstacles in life and to rise again to pursue your dreams.Just remember the sayings of the great Chinese philosopher,Confucius “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step”.

my gosh i kind of want to cry reading these comments about what happened today. I think i want to cry because i keep thinking about how Liu Xiang is feeling. What he is going through, what he will have to cop from the media, parents, friends, coach and EVERYONE. it\’s so sad… all the preasure and nerves… sometimes they really can get the better of you and even if they don\’t… it\’s really hard to handle such a huge amount of pressure.

it takes a lot of strength and courage to even get up to a moment like this, and i’m pretty sure that if he thought that he could’ve gone on and “try” to compete… he probaly would’ve. no one wants to lose by just walking away. given the choice, i’m sure he would’ve thought of any other way to try and pull through the race. but obviously couldn’t, so why can’t people accept his decision and instead of being angry and all…stand by him like loyal fans are supposed to?

we shouldn’t be ashamed of what he did today. We shouldn’t be ashamed of him at all. Being an athlete there will always be a time where they will dissapoint their fans, but as fans… we are should support him no matter what.

I commend him on what he did today, even having the courage to do what he did is just… really unbelievable. When you fail to deliver your expectations or achieve your goal… there is no bigger dissapointment or pain that you feel… than your own.

A SIMPLE CHINESE’S LETTER TO LIUXIANG

We can’t image what will happen tomorrow although turn the clock quickly this evening, just like we can’t image Liu Xiang will pull up the Olimpics games this morning, Of course we are disappoint. His coach Sun Haiping cried just now, not for LiuXiang’s pulled up, but for the pain of his felling for his boy’s pain on the foot, as we know, at the last several minutes, LiuXiang is still making massage by a special doctor that was called for his injury. I was deeply touched. I’m Chinese, and I’m LiuXiang’s fan, I feeling his pain, I feeling his disappoint, but now I want to say: “LiuXian, we’ll still give you our best support, you hold your huge pain, standing on the field, trying your best to start your race, although not succsess, but you showed your strength, you showed your determination, you are a really hero! “ At noon, some journalist ask some strange question like “why told the injury to people before?”, and “if the decision was made before? “That were so funny, because these journalist do not really know how deeply that Chinese people’s love for LiuXiang, and they do not really know big of the LiuXiang’s strength and determination. The spirit of Olympic, is not only embodied by Michal Phillps’s eight gold medal, but also embodied by LiuXiang. At last, I want say to LiuXiang “keep going on, that is no matter! “

A good guy

I live in Singapore and watched this live on TV here. I was like thinking when he pulled out - ‘Oh no, oh no’.

So many people here in China are gethering together just for Liu Xiang. Everyone was cheering for him just before the race started. However, after we saw he injured on the track, all of us were so nervous that no one could even talk and cheer. Then we heard from the TV that he gave it up because of the unbearable pain, everyone was crying, my mother, my father, my cousin and my friends around me… It’s heartbreaking.

Liu Xiang became the symbol of New China.I guess, in most Chinese hearts, even 10 more gold medals could not compensate the loss of this gold…

American could not understand this. But it is ture. So please, be nice on the comment about it…

Here i have to add, being an eyewitness to the entire event and also in the process of being a fan of Chinese athletics spoils in the recent years, Liu was definitely in the public eye, whether in or out of the bird’s nest. He rose to fame almost at the same pace he took to win the gold, shinning medal at the Athens, and was fuelled more with lucrative sponsorships and endorsement deals. Chinese never really performed anywhere near the word Atheletics, so undoubtedly, Liu’s gold, sparkled the Chinese atheletes considering they added 6 new contestants in track and field to the existing team. Anyways, Liu definitely cashed on his new founded fame with his face splashed all over. I mean literally all over. Of course there was Yao Ming in there somewhere too.
The craze and the tide of expectation he created this Olympics can be judged by the fact, that Chinese tele hired a special chopper with a repoter to hover over the bird’s nest to catch a glimpse of Liu before anybody. Now that was a first! Anyways, pressure was mounting and there was a point, when a stadium containing almost 0.001% of the Chinese population + foreign delegation and atheletes, reporters, your’s truely et al, batted their respective breaths together, same time, for Liu.
Cumulative injury or cumulative pressure, something cumulative was definitely in play there somewhere, but the cumulative silence that i heard at the nest, will reverberate long, that i can tell.