The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | yesterday
Liu Xiang has more than his rivalry with Cuban Dayron Robles to worry about as he prepares to defend his Olympic 110 meters hurdles title, as Australian Cathy Freeman can testify....
Chinalyst - China blogs in English (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Liu Xiang says he is not fully fit but is still confident that he can defend his 110 meter hurdles title at the Beijing Olympics. Liu Xiang is a star in China with his face appearing in many advertising billboards. He is China???s best chance for a track gold medal at the Olympics. He has been hit with a hamstring injury which has effected his training. ???It'??s not so great,??? he said of his injury...
Chinalyst - China blogs in English (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
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China Digital Times (Free subscription) | 07/13/2008
The Times' John Goodbody takes a look at China's great athletic medal hope, Liu Xiang: It has always been destined to be a victory parade, the moment when the Chinese celebrate their staging of the Olympics with the nation's favourite sportsman winning their only gold medal on the track. There may ...
worldwide-news.net (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
The Chinese want hurdler Liu Xiang to capture a gold medal in Beijing and make their nation proud. The burden of expectation is heavy — just as it was for Australian runner Catherine Freeman in Sydney in 2000 and Greek sprinter Kostas Kenteris in Athens in 2004. SPIEGEL looks at three would-be Olympic heroes. Go to [...]
Chinalyst - China blogs in English (Free subscription) | yesterday
There has been a lot of speculation as to who the final torch bearer will be for the Beijing Olympics, the individual who gets to light the cauldron in the Bird's Nest on 8/8. The IOC has a rule that an individual can only be a torchbearer once during each relay, so therefore Liu Xiang, who many suspected it would be, was ruled out, since he was the first torch bearer when the relay was started in...
Chinalyst - China blogs in English (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
Here is a top eight list of storylines as selected by Alan Abrahamson at NBC. No. 1: Michael Phelps chases history No argument from me with this choice. People love seeing records broken and heroes made. If Michael Phelps can win eight Olympic golds he is certainly going to go down in history as one of the greatest Olympians. Phelps'?? first final is a 400-meter individual medley at 10 a.m., Sunday...
Chinalyst - China blogs in English (Free subscription) | 06/16/2008
China’s best hope for a medal in the track and field at the Beijing Olympics Liu Xiang, had his world record beaten by Dayron Robles of Cuba. Robles took off just 0.01 seconds of Xiang’s record winning the 110 meter hurdles in 12.87 seconds. “It is such a good time; I did not expect that. Wow!” Robles said. “Thanks, Ostrava! I am very happy and satisfied. I do not know if I can beat Liu Xiang in Beijing...
D.C. Sports Bog (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
Lindsay "Bonita Appleblog" Applebaum here, with a midnight buffet of Olympic-related linkage: * Lowered expectations: Chinese hurdler Liu Xiang thinks he is the #2 "athlete who could be stars of the show in Beijing." (Fourth-Place Medal) * Dogs in China are really pushing their luck. (Reuters) * Olympic athletes are just like us, except better in every way. (Deadspin) * A reason (other than caring...
Out Of Left Field (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Day –1 Your daily Olympic wrap-up. Notable Canadian performance: The Air Canada official that actually used some common sense to resolve a misunderstanding. Don’t get me started on Air Canada. One day when things are real slow around here I’ll tell you the story of the day that I had to pick up my cats at the Calgary airport. I was nearly arrested. And, what? We didn’t compete yesterday so
Getwonder (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008
Dayron Robles’ world record in the 110-meter hurdles took the focus Usain Bolt’s bid to increase his status as the world’s fastest man at the Golden Spike meet on Thursday night.Robles, 21-year-old a runner, reduced the world record in a hundredth, since the record was in the hands of Chinese Liu Xiang since July 11, 2006 [...]
Chinalyst - China blogs in English (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008
This guy just beat Liu Xiang's 110m hurdle world record. His name is Dayron Robles, he's from Cuba, and he is fast! Liu Xiang, as some of you may know, is the reigning king and motivation for the Olympics out here in China. He's in numerous ads out here including Nike and Coke. Looks like there's some competition brewing in the air from Mr. Liu! Every milisecond counts! Here's a vid of Liu Xiang's...
Chinalyst - China blogs in English (Free subscription) | 20 hours ago
The real ???thugs and goons'?? out there are the IOC. They are an organization so driven by greed, money and corruption that all other considerations come second. They have been bribed easily and they sell out quickly on any issue regarding rights or dignity. Yet as much as I despise the IOC, an organization that seems completely unaware that the stars of the Olympics are people like Michael Phelps,...
Chinalyst - China blogs in English (Free subscription) | yesterday
We have had a sneak preview of the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics, but one question, still remains, who will light the Olympic cauldron? The cauldron has not always been lit at the stadium, at the Winter Games in 1952 and 1960, the flame was lit in the hearth of the home of a Norwegian skiing pioneer, Sondre Norheim, in Morgedal. Muhammad Ali at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and Australian Aboriginal...
NewTeeVee (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008 | Other
Countless sports fans will look for video coverage of the Olympic games online while trapped in their cubicles this week, and chances are at least some of them won’t head to NBC’s official web site but will try their luck elsewhere. In fact, NBC’s decision to delay the online video coverage of popular events for [...]
