A new season of sports
There are many great legendary athletes in Chinese sports, but in my personal heart, the achievements and glory created by Liu Xiang can be called the first in the history of Chinese sports, first of all, track and field is known as the "mother of sports", because the core composition of this sport represents the most basic physical fitness of human beings, but due to genes, sprinting events are monopolized by black athletes all year round, and yellow people have always lacked competitive players in sprinting and hurdles. So this is why Su Bingtian ran 9.83 seconds to advance to the finals at the Tokyo Olympics, why he shocked the world, and it was precisely because of Su Bingtian's sensation that people realized Liu Xiang's "rare encounter in a century" back then, and on February 20, Beijing time, after 472 days, Liu Xiang came back!
"It's back" here does not mean that Liu Xiang has returned to the arena, but that he has finally updated his social account after 472 days, although this is just a small move, and it can't even constitute a social event, but it can trigger all the official ** in the country to pay attention to this phenomenon, and only a figure of Liu Xiang's level is there, after 472 days, Liu Xiang posted a statement claiming "Brother came to see you! And the "you" here refers to the blessed place of Liu Xiang's career: Lausanne, Switzerland.
Liu Xiang is now 40 years old and rarely appears in the public eye after retiring, but 18 years ago in 2006, Liu Xiang broke the 13-year-old world record and won the world championship in the men's 110m hurdles final of the IAAF Super Grand Prix held in Lausanne, Switzerland, with a time of 12.88 seconds! Just mentioned Su Bingtian, Su Bingtian as a yellow race to the Olympic finals can make the whole of Asia proud, but the former Liu Xiang is the real "world king" in the men's 110-meter hurdles, he is also the only athlete in the entire Asian track and field history so far to set the World Championships (indoor + outdoor), the Olympic Games, the IAAF Grand Prix Finals and the world record holder, less than 25 years old to win the 110-meter hurdles Grand Slam, It can be said that these honors are unique in the world!
As a sprint event monopolized by black athletes all year round, it is already a matter of pride for yellow people to stand in the finals of the World Series sprint event, but Liu Xiang's sideways appearance has broken this perception of the world sprinting industry, in Liu Xiang's entire career, he has participated in a total of 48 hurdle competitions, won a total of 36 championships, and the gold medal rate is as high as 75%! In addition, there are also 6 runner-up and 3 third place, that is to say, in addition to Liu Xiang lost 3 medals in 3 races at the beginning of his career, as long as he participates in the subsequent world championships, then there will be a place for Liu Xiang on the podium.
Throughout Liu Xiang's entire hurdles career, his first championship was to win the gold medal at the Shanghai Junior Athletics Championships at the age of 13, which opened his road to fame, until he entered the national team at the age of 16, Liu Xiang, who wore the uniform of the Chinese team, began to emerge in the world championships, at the age of 17, he represented China for the first time in the men's 110-meter hurdles competition at the World Youth Championships held in Santiago, Chile, Liu Xiang won the fourth place, he was very happy after the game, but interestingly, Looking back now, the fourth place that time has become a very rare "0 medal" phenomenon in Liu Xiang's career, so Liu Xiang's talent in track and field alone is also extremely precious.
After the Youth World Championships in Santiago, Chile, Liu Xiang began the road to world fame, winning the gold medal at the East Asian Games in Osaka, Japan at the age of 18, and winning the hurdle gold medal at the World Universiade at the age of 18 in the same year, this gold medal is not only China's first track and field gold medal at the Universiade, but also the first world championship in Liu Xiang's life; At the age of 19, he participated in the IAAF Grand Prix in Switzerland, broke the 24-year-old world youth record with a time of 13.12 seconds and won the gold medal, and a month later easily won the championship at the 14th Asian Athletics Championships.
Later, Liu Xiang began to sweep the International Indoor Championships and IAAF Grand Prix, among which at the IAAF Grand Prix in Osaka, Japan on May 8, 2004, Liu Xiang, who was 21 years old when he was 2 months away, defeated the American hurdle king Alan Johnson with a time of 13.06 seconds and shocked the world! In this battle, Liu Xiang not only ran his best result, but also won this gold medal with high gold content, and more importantly, this is the first time that the 20-year-old Liu Xiang has faced the American hurdles king Alan Johnson, but what countless people did not expect is that Liu Xiang's peak is still behind.
Three months later, the 2004 Athens Olympics began, at this time Liu Xiang had just turned 21 years old, although everyone had high expectations for him, but almost everyone thought that as long as Liu Xiang could break into the Olympic men's 110m hurdles final, it would have justified our yellow race! As a result, Liu Xiang not only broke into the men's 110-meter hurdles final, but also ran a terrifying 12.91 seconds in the final, not only won the gold medal of the Athens Olympics, but also equaled the Olympic record in one fell swoop, Liu Xiang not only created the myth of the Chinese in the sprint event, and this Athens Olympic gold medal has been called by countless Chinese so farThe Olympic gold medal with the highest gold content in the history of Chinese sports
After that, from 2004 to March 2008, Liu Xiang was invincible in various world hurdle competitions, if Liu Xiang won a silver medal at that time, in the eyes of many netizens, it was "poor performance", which had to be said in advance of the 2006 Lausanne International Athletics Super Grand Prix Lausanne in Switzerland, Liu Xiang ran an astonishing 12.88 seconds, thus refreshing the men's 110-meter hurdles world record that had been dormant for 13 years. The previous world record was set by Liu Xiang himself at the Athens Olympics in 12.91 seconds, and Liu Xiang has become a well-deserved Chinese idol!
On the eve of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, which China is most concerned about, Liu Xiang was injured, and his right Achilles tendon injury directly led to the forced retirement in the Beijing Olympic preliminaries, but after 1 year of recovery, Liu Xiang returned to the top! The first comeback won the silver medal in the Shanghai International Athletics ** Grand Prix in 13.15 seconds, and then achieved three consecutive Asian Championships in the Asian Athletics Championships, especially in June 2012 at the IAAF Diamond League Eugene Station, Liu Xiang won the gold medal in 12.87 seconds, and 12.87 seconds not only made him return to the first place in the world men's 110-meter hurdles after 5 years, but also let countless Chinese netizens see the gold medal hope of the upcoming London Olympics.
The result is heart-wrenching, Liu Xiang suffered another injury at the London Olympics, in the men's 110-meter hurdles preliminaries, Liu Xiang fell to the ground directly on the hurdle, and finally jumped over the finish line with one leg to complete the race, and the scene of kissing the hurdles at the finish line, in fact, many fans have already arrived, and Liu Xiang may never return to the peak after a major injury.
But what really hurt Liu Xiang's heart was not the injury, not even retirement, but the abuse of countless Chinese netizens against him, the nicknames of "Liu Ran Run" and "Liu Actor" flocked to him, Liu Xiang also officially announced his retirement on April 7, 2015, but what is even more excessive is that if you count from the withdrawal from the Beijing Olympic Games, Liu Xiang's "cyber violence" on the Internet lasted for a full 10 years!
It wasn't until Liu Xiang retired and retired for many years that he said such sad words in an interview with Lu Yu: ".After the (cyberbullying) incident, no one wants to say a word for me, I will explain it, but what's the use? The world is hot and cold, and the people are warm and cold! Liu Xiang laughed a few times after saying this, perhaps this is a thorough understanding of the helplessness of the world, a thorough understanding of human nature, and also a smile on that unbearable memory.
At the end, I read one of the "hottest comments" under Liu Xiang's latest developments, and found that the biggest difference between people in life is independent thinking.
Editor: Tang Bohu.