Oh! lympics!
Shame:
Defending 110m hurdles champion Liu Xiang is out of the Beijing Olympics after pulling up in the opening round.
Liu, considered China's best athletics gold medal hope, was clearly in pain with an Achilles injury in the warm-up.
And after a false start, he pulled up and stunned the home crowd in the 91,000-seater Bird's Nest stadium when he was forced to withdraw. Liu's withdrawal was greeted by disbelief from the capacity crowd, who left in their droves as their ashen-faced hero exited down the tunnel into the bowels of the iconic stadium. And people around China have been shocked by the news - a Chinese TV presenter who broke the story on the Olympics TV channel's 1pm (0600 BST) bulletin broke down in tears on air.
This would never happen on the BBC.
Are they not a bit bonkers, and taking it all too seriously?
Presumably Liu will be hauled off to a labour camp now.
Defending 110m hurdles champion Liu Xiang is out of the Beijing Olympics after pulling up in the opening round.
Liu, considered China's best athletics gold medal hope, was clearly in pain with an Achilles injury in the warm-up.
And after a false start, he pulled up and stunned the home crowd in the 91,000-seater Bird's Nest stadium when he was forced to withdraw. Liu's withdrawal was greeted by disbelief from the capacity crowd, who left in their droves as their ashen-faced hero exited down the tunnel into the bowels of the iconic stadium. And people around China have been shocked by the news - a Chinese TV presenter who broke the story on the Olympics TV channel's 1pm (0600 BST) bulletin broke down in tears on air.
This would never happen on the BBC.
Are they not a bit bonkers, and taking it all too seriously?
Presumably Liu will be hauled off to a labour camp now.
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