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China's hero, its DiMaggio, falls before race even begins

By Luke Cyphers
ESPN The Magazine

Monday, August 18, 2008

BEIJING -- Where have you gone, Liu Xiang? It's a question a billion stunned Chinese are asking themselves on Monday, as Liu, the national hero and defending Olympic 110-meter hurdles champion, pulled out of the Games without clearing a barrier. A previously unreported chronic injury to his right heel felled him, and he ripped off his competition number and limped off the track after a competitor's false start in the first-round heat. At that moment, 13 minutes before noon on a bright, love ...

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