In the final of the men's 110m hurdles at the Tokyo Olympics athletics competition, Jamaica's Hanst Patchmunt won the gold medal in the event with a time of 13.04 meters, Grant Holloway of the United States won the silver medal in 13.09 seconds, and another Jamaican player, Ronald Levy, won the bronze medal in 13.10 seconds. China's Xie Wenjun finished fifth in the semi-finals and did not make it to the finals.
Although athletics is not our strong point, we are very proud when it comes to the 110m hurdles, because our Chinese player Liu Xiang was once the hegemon of this project, because he broke through the limits of Asians and broke the monopoly of European and American non-athletes on this event. At the 2004 Olympic Games, Liu Xiang ran a historic final, and in the final, he finally pushed the American star Trammell and the Cuban star Garcia to break the Olympic record and win the gold medal in the project.
Liu Xiang's success shocked the world with this run, becoming the first Olympic gold medal from Asia in the 110-meter hurdles event, and he also broke the Olympic record previously held by Britain's Colin Jackson with a time of 12.91 seconds. Liu Xiang, who became famous in the Olympic Games, became a real "Chinese flyer" because this gold medal is the first male athlete in the history of the Chinese Olympic Games to win a gold medal in athletics.
It is worth mentioning that since the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, 17 years have gone through 4 Olympic Games, but Liu Xiang's record of 12.91 seconds held by Liu Xiang is still unbreakable. And this Tokyo Olympic Games, Jamaica's gold medal to parchiment's 13.04 seconds, and Liu Xiangbi is a huge gap.
At the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Liu Xiang withdrew due to injury, and Cuban Dai Long-Robles ran a time of 12.93 seconds to win the championship, 0.02 seconds away from Liu Xiang's record;
At the 2012 London Olympics, American star Aris Merritt ran a time of 12.92 seconds to win the championship, only 0.01 seconds away from Liu Xiang's record;
At the 2016 Rio Olympics, the winner of the 110m hurdles was Jamaica's Omar McLeod, but he only ran 13.05 seconds; compared with the previous three Olympic champions, this result is still a big gap.
It can be said that in the era when Liu Xiang won the championship, the competition in the 110-meter hurdles was the most fierce, with a number of high-level players, who could run within 13 seconds in many competitions, and Liu Xiang not only ran 12.91 seconds in the Olympic Games, but also ran 12.88 seconds in the Lausanne Battle in 2006 to directly break the world record.
Until now, every time I watch the video of Liu Xiang winning the Olympic Games, it will still make people's blood boil and even tears, but unfortunately, our next Liu Xiang does not know when it will appear. I really owe a debt of gratitude to Liu Xiang for the brilliant results he has created for us in the athletics arena.