"Won 60 gold medals, but was cyberbullied by the whole people for more than ten years!"
At the 2004 Athens Olympics,
A slightly thin Chinese man made a splash in the 100-meter hurdles,
With a time of 12.91 seconds, he won the championship in one fell swoop, attracting the attention of the world.
Then the male athlete, with his cheerful smile, not arrogant personality and amazing talent,
Let the whole of China and even all Asian yellow people scream, he is Liu Xiang.
However, Liu Xiang's life did not become a myth that never fell, as people expected.
Just after losing the Beijing Olympics, he was thrown off the altar hard.
Many netizens angrily denounced him, saying that he was a deserter and disgraced China in front of people all over the world.
Throughout Liu Xiang's career in the first 30 years, it is really emotional:
Society is so realistic, judging a person only by the success or failure of the result really does not give Liu Xiang the tolerance and opportunity he deserves.
1. Asian speed, a blockbuster
On August 27, 2004, in the men's 110-meter hurdles final of the Athens Olympic Games,
What we see are basically black players with slender limbs.
Liu Xiang, as a Chinese-Asian player, seems to have no worries at all.
At the Olympic Games, which had traditionally been dominated by blacks, no one had ever been able to snatch meat under their hands.
However, with the sound of a gunshot, Liu Xiang rushed forward with all his strength with the fastest reaction speed, accelerating little by little.
When it was about to finish the line, it was already far ahead, and it was a big distance away from the second place, which can be described as a unique ride!
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Under the watchful eye, Liu Xiang won the Olympic 100-meter hurdles championship with a score of 12.91, directly breaking the Olympic record.
At that moment, not only the shouts of the Chinese were deafening, but the whole of Asia raised their eyebrows because of Liu Xiang's speed!
Liu Xiang's performance can be said to have shocked and ecstatic in everyone's eyes.
In the top arena of the Olympic Games, in the track where blacks are inherently racially advantaged,
Liu Xiang broke history! God is God!
He stood on the podium wearing a five-star red flag fluttering in the wind, and was a well-deserved son of heaven.
Moreover, this Olympic record is still unbroken by no one until 20 years later, and he ushered in the most glorious moment of his life and opened the "Flying Man Era" that belongs to him.
Second, the new top class, the darling of the whole people
In the 04 Olympic Games, Liu Xiang became the top in one fell swoop, and the spotlights and cameras of the world were coming to him.
Young athletes in fresh clothes and angry horses, wherever they go, are the focus of the audience.
In the following years, various interviews and advertising endorsements about Liu Xiang were overwhelming, and he appeared on the covers of well-known magazines in various countries countless times.
Liu Xiang's shadow is everywhere in the news, on the walls of the streets and alleys, beside the street lamps, the old people and children talk about him all the time, all of which are inseparable from him and the miracles he has created.
In those years or two, Liu Xiang had more than a dozen endorsement invitations to decline every day. If those years can be summed up in one word, it is undoubtedly "Liu Xiang's era".
However, even if he has achieved such a high achievement, Liu Xiang not only did not relax his requirements for himself, but continued to increase his training intensity.
I look forward to winning the gold medal in the next Olympics held by China.
In the final of the men's 110m hurdles at the 2006 IAAF Super Grand Prix, Liu Xiang won the gold medal with a time of 12.88 seconds, directly breaking the world record that had been sealed for 13 years.
In September of the same year, at the IAAF Athletics Grand Prix held in Germany, Liu Xiang broke the record for this type of competition with a score of 12.93.
In addition, in the 11th World Championships 110m hurdles on August 31, 2007, Liu Xiang won the championship again.
So far, this talented teenager has become an Olympic and World Championship champion and world record holder in one gold Grand Slam winner!
3. Retired from Beijing with injuries and was abused by others
Liu Xiang's results have made people have high expectations for his performance at the 08 Beijing Olympics.
Liu Xiang has also been preparing for this for a long time, overcoming fatigue and injuries to improve training intensity.
As he said back then: If anyone can surpass him, it must be himself!
However, when everyone in the audience looked at Liu Xiang very nervously,
After the gunshot, he didn't run many steps, but Liu Xiang suddenly staggered forward a few steps before stopping on the runway because of severe pain.
And the reason why he stopped was because of high-intensity training, which led to a ruptured Achilles tendon, and he had no choice but to withdraw from the game.
Accompanied by his coach, Liu Xiang withdrew from the game, leaving behind an amazed audience at the scene and in front of the world's television sets.
Every spectator was extremely disappointed when they walked out of this game, and some spectators even waited four years to see Liu Xiang once.
However, Liu Xiang had to withdraw from the competition because of a foot injury, and his pain not only did not receive sympathy from the public, but attracted a wave of doubts and abuse, and everyone was "disappointed" in Liu Xiang.
Some people say that Liu Xiang is too hypocritical, even if it hurts, he should finish the game, what is the matter with retiring.
"It's just too embarrassing, how can China raise its head in front of the people of the world?"
However, they don't know how much hard training Liu Xiang has done to prepare for the Beijing Olympics.
It was the perseverance and pain that ordinary people couldn't match, and even the coach choked up and cried several times when he mentioned it.
However, even if it is questioned by the public,
Liu Xiang was not depressed, but held his breath in his heart and cooperated with the surgical treatment, taking care of physical recovery and sports training under the advice of doctors and coaches.
It was in the pain and exhaustion day after day that Liu Xiang's feet slowly recovered.
Even if an athlete can recover from an injury, it is difficult to return to the level of competition before the injury.
However, Liu Xiang also participated in a lot of competitions between 09 and 11, and gradually won the first and second good results from the third place, which undoubtedly gave Liu Xiang a lot of confidence.
However, the 2012 London Olympics completely frustrated the expectations of Liu Xiang and the audience.
Fourth, London folded its wings and was spurned by 10,000 people
With the London 2012 Olympics just around the corner, Liu Xiang trained like a machine before the games. However, the tragedy that people did not want to face was the Olympic battlefield in London.
Liu Xiang tripped over the railing directly when he crossed the first railing, fell to the ground heavily, and the severe pain made his right foot unable to land, so he could only jump over the railing step by step with one foot.
All of a sudden, the abuse and questioning drowned the young man who fought for his country like a mudslide.
People don't want to believe why Liu Xiang made many mistakes in such an important Olympic event, thinking that Liu Xiang is acting and pretending to be sick, which is a shame in the history of sports.
In fact, Liu Xiang directly ruptured his Achilles tendon at the Olympics, causing permanent damage.
In 2015, 32-year-old Liu Xiang reluctantly announced to everyone that he had decided to retire.
Holding back tears and smiling, he faced the track and field stars and spectators who practiced for himself.
epilogue
This is the end of a generation of famous generals.
He has set a number of world-class records that have never been seen before or since.
He received flowers and applause from all over the world, but fell to the bottom twice at the top of the mountains.
But Liu Xiang never complained about these injustices,
After retiring, he is still enthusiastic about public welfare.
Make contributions to China within our capacity with our own strength.
Some netizens commented that he ran too fast, far exceeding the acceptance of the people back then.
Geniuses are always not understood.
I hope Liu Xiang can move forward in his own life,
I also hope that China's Olympic athletes can get their own glory!
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References: 1. Tencent Sports released on April 1, 2010 "Flyer Liu Xiang's Profile: Athens Olympic Gold Medal Defy Setbacks and Set Sail Again"
Reference: CCTV released on August 18, 2008: Liu Xiang withdrew from the men's 110-meter hurdles preliminaries due to injury and bid farewell to the Beijing Olympics
Reference: Southern Metropolis Daily released on October 1, 2020 "Liu Xiang's sentence "I want to stay at the age of 21 forever" topped the hot search list, and the emotion was tearful"