Oh boy. Seems like an Olympic gold for Liu Xiang in the Beijing Games isn’t a sure thing after all. Who could grab the gold from him? Cuban Dayron Robles who just set a new world record in the 110 meter hurdles. From the AP: Dayron Robles of Cuba has set a world record in [...]
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Xing Huina: Missing in Beijing
China’s Xing Huina will not defend her Olympic title (women’s 10,000-meter) because of a thigh injury which prevented her from training for the Beijing Games. That leaves Liu Xiang as the only legitimate gold medal favorite among Chinese athletes competing in track events. PHOTO SOURCE: BBC
China’s Over-Training
Will China overtake the United States in the Olympic medal race? Some crystal ball gazers think so but China’s drive for Olympic dominance might be stalled by over-training. From AFP: When Frenchman Christian Bauer saw the Chinese fencing team he was hired to train for the Olympics the first thing he did was to send [...]
Olympic Medal Prediction: China Will Top the Medal Race
China will emerge as the new overall Olympic champion when the final medal tally is counted in Beijing. Says who? Researchers from Sheffield Hallam University who predict that the host nation will win 46 gold medals during the Beijing Olympics. From BBC: “China has set its stall out to become the number one nation in [...]
Photo of the Day: Liu Xiang
Liu Xiang, the first Olympian we blogged about, records his first victory in 2008 during the recently concluded IAAF Japan Grand Prix in Osaka.
