OTB News (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
No coach has faced greater pressure entering the 2008 Olympics than Sun Haiping, just as no Chinese athlete has endured higher expectations than star hurdler Liu Xiang.
New York Times (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
No coach has faced greater pressure entering the 2008 Olympics than Sun Haiping, just as no Chinese athlete has endured higher expectations than star hurdler Liu Xiang.
Turkish daily news (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
... hard every day, but the result was as you see and it's really hard to take," said Liu's coach, Sun Haiping.
MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
... Sport. Accordingly, Liu Xiang keeps 50 percent of his earnings, with 15 percent going to his coach Sun Haiping, and 20 percent to his hometown Shanghai's sports bureau. The remaining 15 percent is allocated to the Chinese Athletics Association. Although there isn't a vast difference between the number of ads done by Yao Ming and Liu Xiang, the hurdle star’s income is less than half of the...
Peking Duck (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
Breaking: A right achilles injury has prematurely ended Liu Xiang’s Beijing Olympic dreams. Update by Richard: It’s being broadcast live right now on CCTV - his coach Sun Haiping is crying his eyes out explaining his injury. Everyone in my office is huddled around the TV set watching, visibly depressed. All that time training for this, [...]
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
... a Chinese can win a track and field event usually dominated non-Asians.On Monday, Liu's coach, Sun Haiping, tearfully told reporters that last weekend Liu had experienced an unexpected reoccurrence of an Achilles' tendon injury.After Liu hobbled off the track, China's Internet was filled with comments that ranged from sympathetic to deeply suspicious, with some people blaming officials or...
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
... people all over began crying."He has been fighting and fighting until the last moment," his coach Sun Haiping said.Is there an American athlete so beloved that an injury would make people cry uncontrollably? Hard to say - America is such a diverse sports nation. Maybe it was like that when Magic Johnson retired from basketball after announced that he was HIV positive. Maybe it was like that...
Los Angeles Times (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
... Cuba's Dayron Robles, 21, who took Liu's world record in the event this year.But trouble emerged Sunday when Liu's official website posted news that "an inflamed Achilles tendon" had forced him to skip training Sunday and that his coach, Sun Haiping, worried about his fitness to run in the final.Liu nevertheless emerged on the track Monday, wincing and massaging his right calf and foot....
Beale Street Beat (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
... The Chinese were hush-hush about how serious his injury was until last weekend; then, his coach, Sun Haiping, hinted that an inflamed Achilles tendon was impeding Liu’s training time. Still, it was the Olympics and an adoring home crowd awaited. Liu Xiang was determined to race. On Monday, he arrived at the Bird’s Nest, China’s impressive 91,000 seat outdoor stadium, for the first qualifying...
Hindu (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
... gold medals, but the absence of their hero evidently hit them pretty hard.Two injuries Liu’s coach Sun Haiping explained that two injuries had been troubling the star for some time now. “He has two injures. The one to the leg has been an accumulative injury for years, but it was cured. The major (factor that led to) his withdrawal is his heel injury. Liu’s heel bone protrudes more than usual;...
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
... cry when the announcement was made that their hero had withdrawn from the competition.Yesterday, Sun Haiping, Liu's coach, said the athlete had undergone a scan on Saturday and three doctors had done "everything possible" to get him race fit. "They could not help him stand up because the injury is in the heel, which takes the most force," Mr Haiping said, before breaking down in tears.Feng...
Indian Express (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
... in disbelief, many in tears, as his coaches addressed a somberly conducted press conference. Sun Haiping, 25-year-old Liu’s coach, broke down inconsolably, with the moderator and the head coach of the Chinese athletics team (Feng Shuyong) trying to calm him. Sun, who had discovered Liu in Shanghai ten years ago, said every medical attention had been provided, but there was no way to help...
Mirror.co.uk (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
... before an eerie silence and then tears as the hopes of a nation died. Even his coach and mentor, Sun Haiping, was weeping.It was clear from the warm-up that Liu, 25, was having injury trouble.There had been suggestions that coaches had put too much pressure on him - desperate for him to repeat his 2004 triumph, when he became China's first Olympic track champion.Wang Wei, vice-president...
Daily News Analysis (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
... there before the 2004 Athens Games and it has been coming and going,” his tearful coach and mentor Sun Haiping told a news conference.“It’s the end of the Achilles tendon in his right foot,” he added. “I’m afraid he won’t be able to compete before the end of the year ... he can barely walk. He was in tears, he’s very depressed.”The China athletics team’s head coach Feng Shuyong said the...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
Beijing - Liu Xiang's coach on Monday issued a disaster warning even before the national icon had stepped onto the track at the Beijing Olympics. The China Daily, in a story titled Injured Liu vs terrifying opponent, quoted coach Sun Haiping as say...
