Guest Post by Karl Lacroix
1. Liu was the only athlete in the history of sports with 1.3 BILLION coaches. Everybody in China knew what Liu should do, but only he knew what he COULD do.
2. Liu was and will forever be a ‘one hit’ athletic wonder. A lot of athletes are like that. He should have walked away after the world record was set. Chinese people were shocked that he, an Asian, had beaten the clock in basically a Western competition. The shock was right. He will never do it again.
3. The Chinese forgot that he was a hero of the last Olympics, not the 2008 Olympics. Hero status today is something each athlete MUST earn and you are nothing till you do. Who remembers who won what in 1996 or 2000? The voracious appetite for heroes prevalent throughout the world is damn near a fever pitch in China. Does anyone in China care who the No.2 Chinese 110m hurdles runner is? Nobody in the rest of the world does either, Eat ‘em up and spit ‘em out. (Shi Dongpeng by the way).
4. Liu failed because he spent too much time chasing kangaroos in TV commercials in China. Hell, even Aussie runners don’t chase kangaroos.
5. Liu had too much money to carry on his back each time he ran a race...bundles of it strapped on his back. And the biggest currency note in China is only worth 100 rmb. He was in effect a race horse with a huge handicap under his saddle. Alas now he will only be able to spend it. (Crocodile tears all around...).
6. No sex! Liu had bad skin, obviously meaning he was not getting laid. Sex relaxes the muscles. He looked so tight the night he walked away, like he had a terminal case of blue balls. (Now I can hear my Chinese readers saying ‘Blue balls?’- - never mind).
7. Too much sex! Liu was a pretty boy. Maybe he had too many girls sapping his strength. On the other hand maybe he had too many gay lovers slapping him silly.
8. Liu knew the Cuban was going to win. Athletes in any TOP sport know if they will get beaten or not. The great ones find another way to win, usually with heart. Being not so great....Liu took the shower (read ‘easy’) road.
9. The Communist government told him to quit. Why? Well, right now, can you name any Chinese superstar (with a moniker as recognizable as Liu Xiang) who has won gold at this Olympics in a heroic way? Nope. So the government views the gold medal count as a victory for communism.....individuals not wanted. The leaders of China know that the record book will show that the 2008 medal haul by China will be forever recorded as the biggest win by a ‘political system’. Hey they beat the Nazi’s totals of 1936. Sick!
10. The sad thing is I think Liu knew he was not able to run that night but because Chinese people have conspiracy theories worse than Americans, he HAD to come out, show himself and then bust up his foot for the ‘fans’ just so they ‘knew’ he really tried. Athletes at that level of fine tuned skill, know when they are not right.......they KNOW. So out he came, said ‘Watch me citizens of China’, and then zapped his foot.
And that, for me is the most heroic thing that has happened in sports in a long time. Damn stupid, but heroic nonetheless. I predict after suitable medical consideration Liu Xiang will retire.
Karl Lacroix
13 comments:
Liu's collapse can only be good for China -- it shows him as an individual, not as a robot who forges onwards, upwards, for the glory of the state.
In fact, many observers believe that the biggest outcome of the Games will not be the glorification of China, but the individual acceptance on the streets of Beijing that foreigners might be "red face long nose", but despite that, some of them are approachable, not very weird and sometimes even quite nice and interesting.
This Karl character seemed to think he really knows what had happened to Liu Xiang, when all he was producing was witch hunts and speculations based on his own biased perceptions.
Please watch the game replay if you haven't. Liu Xiang was really running the game at the beginning. He quited AFTER another player made a false start. He walked limply back to the start line, with apparent pains, then after a brief effort at returning to the start line, he decided to quit.
Of course now that with my new information, you would improvise by saying Liu Xiang first set the audiance up for the fall by showing hints of foot injuries, then his was a perfect fail-safe plan, because if he ran and lose, he can blame on the injuries. He could also decide to quit at an apropriate time if the opportunities come up.
That would be the new theory huh? Cynic speculation bullshits.
First of all, Robles' final record for the 08 olympics was 9.95 seconds. Not his best, but it is also a record that is within Liu Xiang's ability to beat.
For top atheletes, I think Liu Xiang had enough chances as to not invoke a government interference. If you have 40% odds to win, don't you think the gold medal would worth the risk? I think Liu Xiang's best record, being 9.88, with a 0.01 difference from Robles' would give him that much odds to win, don't you think?
The fact that you are making this Liu Xiang withdrawal thing such a big deal, as if it once again proves Chinese shady qualities are very disgusting. It is a reflection of your own discrimanting views. It is like you are happy to see China fall. So much for your preached acceptence values.
Gosh, I know China are wrong in a lot of things, but I just wish you guys could be more mature about it, AND find the RIGHT things to talk about.
Even my countrymen are showing wide acceptence and supports to Liu Xiang, what business DO YOU HAVE, other than getting a good laugh? Don't you think that is shady? Get a life.
After the initial shock, and the first few moments of riots and heated debates on the internet, a lot of positive stuff popped up on the net with sincere supports for Liu Xiang. In some of the celebrity blogs, people even criticized our own Chinese fellows for being "wrong to extend our own desires upon another individual, enburden him with such wishes." and that "Liu Xiang is not obligated to fulfill YOUR wishes".
There are a lot of supports and understandings for Liu Xiang all around.
If we can take this with a mature attitude, what the fuck is the validity for your speculations? What are the grounds? Just what kind of fucking pleasure do you take out of this anyways?
Finally, if you look at USA women's basketball coach Lang Ping, who is a legendery volleyball athelete for the Chinese, you should know that she still received great acceptence and cheers despite coaching the US team, and when her team was playing in China AND AGAINST CHINA.
During the women's match between China and USA, there were some initial boos, but those voices were later drawn by cheers from the Chinese for the US team and Lang Ping. In one instance, someone shouted in Chinese "Lang Ping, I love you!"
We had our shares of sins and barbarism. Remeber when former Chinese table tennis player He Zhili joint Japanese team and defeated the then legend table tennis player Deng Yaping, He Zhili received so much name callings, personal attacks, and even death threats, it was very disheartening to remember. The mountains of hurts that my countrymen lushed out were beyond my ability of description.
Now we cheer for Lang Ping and many others like her, all the while, we do so with an lingering sorrow for our past errors.
That is fucking sportsmanship, do you need us, a country that did not invent the Olympics, to teach you to understand that?
BTW, the above was for Karl
Usually the posts here are backed up by facts and statistics, but this recent one seems borderline hate speech.
And? Is this supposed to inflame the Chinese or something?
What is your visitor count suddenly getting low? The sex stories not pulling in enough attention these days?
Better put those ads up on your blog pretty soon sounds like you're running out of material.
I hear another book being written.
Wright B:
"Liu's collapse can only be good for China -- it shows him as an individual, not as a robot who forges onwards, upwards, for the glory of the state."
China is creative and we don't need a democracy to prove it.
You westerners could do with a bit of conformity. On TV when one watches demonstrations, protesting the Iraq War, one cannot help but think they are acting like unruly and immature little children.
That's OK by me. Big adult China can handle a few fractionated and opinioned westerners, will teach you western children how to act very soon if not already.
Even people like CB will soon be absorbed by China, those so called "free thinkers". lol
Sorry, noticed a little mistake. Liu and Robles' records all start with 12 secondish, so change the 9 to 12. For example, Robles' best record was 12.87, which is the new world record, and Liu's was 12.88.
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<<2. Liu was and will forever be a ‘one hit’ athletic wonder. A lot of athletes are like that. He should have walked away after the world record was set. Chinese people were shocked that he, an Asian, had beaten the clock in basically a Western competition. The shock was right. He will never do it again.>>>
One hit? LOL.
Liu actually dominated for several years, winning race after race, including breaking the world record in 2006, after his famous 2004 Athens Olympics feat.
ONE world record is ONE hit in ONE race distance.
Watch how quickly he will be forgotten.....not by Chinese of course, but by other atletes who are really good ...like Bolt, a multiple distance - multiple record breaker.
You see the difference....?
LOL again. Yep and we humans have only gone to the Moon once. One hit wonder that we are.
The world record he broke in 2006 had been untouched for 13 years. His dominance since 2004 up to the very recent challenge from the surging Robles had been complete, winning the first and only grand slam titles of his sport.
Your bitterness towards Liu and the Chinese speaks more to what kind of little person you are than anything else.
This article about Liu Xiang has clearly proved the fact that the Karl Lacroix is surely a piece of rubbish,losing face of his country called the great britain.With too many wicked,nasty,stupid wankers like Karl Lacroix,the country of England could never be great at all.
Am I the only one who see the joke in this? And why is it that everybody here (in China) has to get so extremely defensive about everything.
From how I read it Karl and Leo pretty much says the same thing, except Leo is angry at Karl for saying something else.
Finally: I didn't see the event, I don't care much about sports and makes a point out of not watching the Olympics every 4th year. Having said that I have stayed in China and doing so in these times it is impossible to not hear about the national hero Liu Xiang, the problem he faced was that he had to be better than he ever was before, not only better than everybody else but better than himself as well. This is of course possible of you are in the best shape of your life, but if you aren't then you are screwed. I'm not saying that HE faked it, just that I would have.
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