Liu Xiang, a teenager who once chased the wind, stunned the world

"Wind-chasing teenager, full of spirit"

"Whoever said that yellow people can't get the top eight of the Olympic Games, I must prove to everyone today that I am an Olympic champion." This is an interview before the 110-meter hurdles final of the Athens Olympics, and Liu Xiang left words in front of the camera.

Now, we will not take this sentence as a joke, as a young maniac, but in Athens in 2004, when the 21-year-old Liu Xiang embarked on the final of the 110-meter hurdles with the dream of countless people, it has made many people feel incredible, and when they heard such words, I believe that many people at that time thought he was crazy.

Perhaps, geniuses and madmen are really just a thought. We saw Liu Xiang, who was as fast as lightning and won the championship with a record of 12.91, leveling the world record and breaking the Olympic record. This is the first time for the yellow race and the first time for Chinese athletics.

On that day, he let the black people on the track hang their heads; on that day, he broke everyone's perception that athletics was no longer the domain of black white people, and black people would be defeated on the straight track.

"I believe that in my future sports career, there will be countless miracles, waiting for me to create and wait for me to go to glory." Liu Xiang said in a post-match interview. We will no longer doubt what he said, and he who came out tonight shocked everyone, and everyone had reason to believe that he would do what he said.

To tell the truth, to this day, I am still very excited, I don't know how many years we need to come up with another Liu Xiang, I vaguely remember that the Olympic Liu Xiang to the peak, but his footsteps did not stop, he is constantly creating miracles. At the 2006 IAAF Grand Prix in Lausanne, Switzerland, as Dong Rina said before the game, Lausanne is Liu Xiang's blessed land, and we look forward to his good results. It was also this day that Liu Xiang broke the world record of 13 years with a score of 12.88, and on this day, his world record and the Olympic record were combined, truly reaching the peak of an athlete.

At the 2007 World Championships in Athletics, Liu Xiang left us with a rare scene, the speed of overtaking in the ninth curve won the championship, shocking the miracle of the world.

We see Liu Xiang constantly winning the championship, it can be said that as long as There is a final in which Liu Xiang participates, there is a good chance that the champion belongs to him. Maybe it really confirms that sentence, the prosperity will decline, August 18, 2008, 1.3 billion people's expectations, the Bird's Nest is full, I think we can not forget, Liu Xiang himself will not forget, wearing the No. 1356 jersey Liu Xiang (1356, 1356 billion Chinese, 56 nationalities), with the hope of the Chinese people to embark on the final venue of the Beijing Olympic Games, this is the Olympic Games at the doorstep, everyone also expects him to win the championship at the doorstep.

In fact, before that, Liu Xiang's right foot already had severe Achilles tendonitis. In the final, he actually took a lot of risks, in the player passage before the game, Liu Xiang kicked the wall hard, this is not to cheer himself up, this is to alleviate the pain, and the fact is as expected, in the final, we see not the wind-chasing teenager who once was, and a stumbling figure, limping out of the field of him.

Liu Xiang withdrew from the competition, and the Bird's Nest was in an uproar. "With the advertiser to put on a show, Liu Xiangying Emperor level acting skills," even more scolded to "how can you not climb to the end." "Athens hated him as much as he loved him then. The overwhelming scolding sound made Liu Xiang and his supervisor coach Sun Haiping feel puzzled.

The wind was quiet, the rain stopped, and Liu Xiang, who had recovered, returned to the arena again and won the championship one after another. Just when everyone was full of hope to see the return of the former hero, God once again made a joke with him, just like four years ago on August 18, he once again went to war with an injury, in fact, the doctor had told him that if he competed in the right Achilles tendon may break, but he still stood on the final stage, the first hurdle He fell, fell heavily on the track, this time he jumped to the finish line on one foot, apologized again, but this time the insult was worse than four years ago.

This time he was more mature and didn't care about other people's evaluations. Jumping to the finish line in the final and leaning over to kiss the hurdles, he may be saying goodbye to his favorite track, because he knows that he can't come back, and the rupture of the Achilles tendon is a major injury that ends his career for the athlete, and the knife edge of the operation is very deep and 13 stitches.

Of course, Liu Xiang has not given up, he has been trying to recover, however, with the increase of age, the recovery of injuries is not ideal, in fact, even if the recovery is not very strong, in 2015 Liu Xiang bid farewell to the track, bid farewell to all those who pay attention to him, he said "I have to experience countless difficulties in my sports career, setbacks, in the face of opponents, I have never flinched, escape, fear, I will always do my best, to work hard, to fight, to challenge."

At this moment, countless people shed tears, and at this time, we realized that Liu Xiang is a man, not a god, he will leave, and he cannot stay on this track forever. Everyone reportedly owes Liu Xiang an apology. It's just that this apology is a bit late.

Liu Xiang has left us countless honors, 48 world championships, 36 championships, 6 runners-up, 3 third places. I don't know how many people there are, remembering so many honors for him. It's not the table tennis we're familiar with, it's not diving, it's not badminton, it's a huge challenge for the yellow race, so many championships, I think even a black athlete may not be able to get it. To this day, the Olympic record he holds remains unbroken.

Winter to spring, swallows and flowers, the rotation of the four seasons, the passage of time, leaving behind songs and laughter, leaving countless honors, leaving the strong back.