Preface
Liu Xiang, a very controversial name, won many international championships and broke world records in the past few years, and his extremely outstanding results made the people feel as if he was invincible.
But the incident of falling to the Olympics twice caused its reputation to decline rapidly, and after being scolded for so many years, some people also stood up to break the news, so what happened back then?
He collapsed twice on the Olympic stage due to a foot injury
Liu Xiang is an athlete who has won many honors in the history of Chinese sports and track and field, and his appearance was a miracle at the time, but it was the two Olympic Games that impressed many people.
In 08, the Olympic Games finally arrived at home, and many Chinese people went to the scene to see the "Asian Flyer" Liu Xiang, but after the start of the game, when it was only five or six meters away from the starting point, Liu Xiang gave up the game.
This situation surprised everyone, many people questioned Liu Xiang's withdrawal, and even criticized, many people thought that this should obviously choose to insist, why give up?
But Liu Xiang is still focused on his career, going for surgery, rehabilitation, comeback, and continuing to compete. In 2012, it was another Olympic Games, and the attention of the outside world to Liu Xiang increased sharply.
In the 110-meter hurdles preliminaries, Liu Xiang's foot disease recurred, during the race, because his foot hit the hurdle and fell, the game failed to continue, and in the end, other players even stepped forward to help Liu Xiang to the wheelchair next to the track.
But the outside world doesn't care about these at all, and scolds Liu Xiang again and again, even if even his coach and family members are innocently scolded. This scolding war did not last for a while, but until Liu Xiang retired, there were still people chasing and scolding......
After being scolded for 10 years, Liu Xiang suddenly became a hot search
In 2019, the cold knowledge shared by a netizen sparked heated discussions on the Internet, and the protagonist in the article was Liu Xiang. The blogger said Liu Xiang was the only athlete who actually beat a black man on a straight track.
Even the world records set in his career were not even achieved by white people. And he participated in 48 World Championships, won 45 awards, and won 36 times, but people still remember his two retirements.
From 08 to 2019, 10 years have passed, and many people who once stood on the accusatory side have become more mature, and many people remember the sentence they owe Liu Xiang sorry.
In 2004, Liu Xiang became the world champion who equaled the world record at the Athens Olympics, and more importantly, he was a Chinese with black hair and yellow skin!
Before Liu Xiang, there was no yellow man who could stand on the top podium of sprint track and field. Liu Xiang broke the remark that "yellow people cannot enter the top eight" with his actions! The next day, Liu Xiang was the headline on the front page of all the media in China.
All of a sudden, from old to young, Liu Xiang became a hero in the hearts of every household, and many people regarded Liu Xiang as an idol. But heroes are also people, and for some reason, there are many people who just don't allow heroes to fail.
Breaking the world record and winning 45 world medals is not as good as the two withdrawals due to injury. Suddenly, Liu Xiang fell from the "national idol" to the bottom in people's hearts.
Cowards, deserters, and even malicious nicknames "Liu Ranran", people seem to want to sprinkle all their anger on Liu Xiang's body.
His coach Sun Haiping also stood up and said that Liu Xiang was injured and was very serious. Liu Xiang was suffering from a disease of "bursitis" at that time, which caused his Achilles tendon to become more and more brittle, and severe use could lead to rupture of the Achilles tendon.
At the London Olympics, Liu Xiang ruptured his Achilles tendon when he fell in the first hurdle. But for these explanations, it did not exchange for the public's understanding, but more questioning and swearing.
But over the years, Liu Xiang has only defended himself once, that is, when he won the championship in the 2010 Asian Games and was interviewed by CCTV.
When the reporter asked about this, Liu Xiang did not shy away from it, saying that he knew all these things, and asked him to run Liu Run, and some people even "educated" Liu Xiang, saying that he should have knocked down all the railings on the runway at that time to be the spirit of sportsmanship.
But Liu Xiang affirmed that they didn't understand, in Liu Xiang's heart, the spirit of sportsmanship is when he takes the lead and crosses the finish line, and later he added that he understands that it is the reality of becoming a king or losing a villain.
But after so many years, in March this year, Liu Xiang's matter once again sparked controversy on the Internet.
Before the game, a closed source broke the news
Before the start of the London Olympics, there were rumors of a recurrence of Liu Xiang's foot injury, but he didn't expect the situation to be so bad.
Before Liu Xiang went to London, the increase in training caused his foot injury to be repeated, and in the first half of the Olympic Games, Liu Xiang's results were good, which made everyone look forward to his achievements in the Olympic Games.
When he was in Germany, the cold weather and the increase in exercise caused Liu Xiang's feet to be very painful when he moved. Liu Xiang's foot injury recurred before the early preliminaries, and in order to run off the preliminaries, he asked a doctor for two injections to seal it.
But the most suspicious thing at that time was that the caliber was different, and when the race walking champion Chen Ding was asked about it, he inadvertently mentioned that he was closed, but the deputy director of the field management center at that time flatly denied it at the press conference.
On March 29 this year, Zhao Zhen, the player's agent and media person, posted on his personal social account that the most famous thing Li Yuyi had done was related to Liu Xiang.
Before the start of the London Olympics, it was he who made the decision to let Liu Xiang play closed, in order to let Liu Xiang rush for the gold medal. So who is Li Yuyi he mentioned?
Liu Xiang returned to the place where he broke the world record and won the championship
At the time of the London Olympics, Li Yuyi was the director of the Shanghai Sports Bureau, and since late 2015, he has been the vice president of the Chinese Football Association. But why do the things of the past so many years suddenly come back to the past?
It turned out that Li Yuyi had taken advantage of his position to openly accept bribes for so many years, and after investigation by relevant departments, the amount of illegal profits he had made over the years was as high as more than 12 million yuan!
At the end of March, at the first trial, Li Yuyi also pleaded guilty in court, and finally the court announced an adjournment and announced the verdict at a later date.
And Liu Xiang also updated his personal social dynamics again after 473 days, with five pictures and the text "Brother come and see". The place where he was was also picked up by netizens was in Lausanne, Switzerland.
This place also means a lot to Liu Xiang, who in 2006 participated in international competitions and broke the world record for 13 years to win the championship.
The former sports career must be unforgettable for him, right?
epilogue
Liu Xiang's incident happened to be in the midst of the transformation of Chinese sports, but now looking back, the most heart-wrenching thing is that Liu Xiang has endured all this alone.
Now he has also retired and started a new life, although there are regrets, but this can be regarded as a relief.
Resources
1. The original article was published in The Paper 2015-04-07 about "When so many people hate Liu Xiang, what do they hate?"
2. The original article was published in the National Business Daily 2024-02-20 about "Update the news after 473 days! Liu Xiang returned to the place where he broke the world record and won the championship, and posted a recent photo → at the age of 40"
3. The original article was published in People's Daily 2019-07-17 about "After being scolded for 10 years, Liu Xiang suddenly became a hot search, and the content made people teary"
4. The original article was published in China Women's Daily on 2024-03-30 on "The First Trial of the Bribery Case of Li Yuyi, Former Vice Chairman of the Chinese Football Association"
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