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	Liu Xiang - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Liu Xiang (Simplified Chinese: 刘翔; Traditional Chinese: 劉翔; pinyin: Liú Xiáng) (born July 13, 1983 in Shanghai, China) is a Chinese hurdling athlete, Olympic gold medalist and holds world record in 110 meter hurdles with time of 12.88 seconds suprassing the previous world record of 12.91 seconds [1]
		In 2002, Liu launched his professional career in fine style by winning his first IAAF Grand Prix in Lausanne with a World Junior and Asian record time of 13.12 seconds +1.6m/s tail wind in the 110 metres hurdles.
		Liu is also the world junior indoor record holder in the 60mH with a time of 7.55 seconds.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Liu_Xiang (403 words)

	Liu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The transliteration Liu can represent several Chinese characters, the family names 劉; (刘 in Simplified Chinese) (Lau in Cantonese), 柳, 留 and 六.
		Liu Wenjing, one of the advisors of Tang Gaozu
		Liu Bei, founder of the Shu Kingdom during the Three Kingdoms period
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Liu (206 words)

	Chu Liu Xiang (Chor Lau Heung) Summaries
		Liu was very happy that she could leave, but when she walked for a few kilometers she felt an enormous pain in her stomach.
		Liu added that when her teacher was drunk, she would tell her a lot of secrets, for example, how to make anti-dotes for some of her poisons.
		Liu said she never saw the Matriarch of Water Yin Ji, but after some time, she smelled a fragrance and passed out again and when she woke up she was at the convent again.
	www.spcnet.tv /gulong/chuliuxiang/chuliuxiang08.shtml (16517 words)

	USATODAY.com - Like countryman Yao, hurdler is finding weight of fame (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Liu Xiang got an inkling of how his gold medal at the 2004 Olympics would change his life when he spoke with his friend and Shanghai homeboy, Yao Ming, on the plane home from Athens to Beijing.
		Liu, winner of the 110-meter hurdles, had become an instant national hero, the mildly surprising champion of an event in which the Chinese had no tradition and which was dominated by Americans.
		Liu's career path is a classic Chinese tale of being recruited for a sport at a young age, in Liu's case, 12, and placed in a school away from his family.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/olympics/summer/track/2006-05-24-beijing-hurdles_x.htm (888 words)

	liu xiang- stardom
		The rise of the national celebrity status and stardom of Olympic champion Liu Xiang is inexorable.
		Liu Xiang received the "Chinese Sports Oscar" award on Wednesday 17 March from American 400m hurdling legend Edwin Moses, Chairman of the Laureus World Sports Academy, which had helped to launch the China award.
		Appropriately, Shanghai which is the business hub of China, has recognised Liu Xiang’s economic rise and under direction from the city authorities has included the story of the Olympic gold medallist, in course material for students in 40 elementary schools in his native city.
	www.internationalmedalist.org /liu_xiang.htm (501 words)

	Xiang Yu - Western Han Ruler and Emperor Biographies - English
		Xiang Yu was born from a noble in the former state of Chu, which had ceased to exist when Qi Shi Huang, the first Emperor unified the country.
		In 208 BC while Xiang Yu and Liu Bang were planning the capture of the Qin capital Xian Yang, an urgent message came from the city of Julu, which had been under siege for nearly a month by Qin troops.
		Xiang Yu was furious because Song Yi ignored the suffering of the soldiers.
	www.kongming.net /novel/han/xiangyu.php (637 words)

	Liu Xiang Sets Another World Record in 110-Meter Hurdles \| Asian American Daily \| GoldSea
		Liu's time of 12.88 seconds at the Athletissima Grand Prix meeting was.03 better than the record he matched in winning gold at the 2004 Athens Olympics.
		Liu, who also holds the world junior record of 13.12 set in July 2002 in Lausanne, ran a victory lap _ shirtless and waving to the crowd _ before sitting on the track clock that showed his record time.
		Liu's record performance came three days after he struggled to a fourth-place finish at the Gaz de France meet outside Paris.
	goldsea.com /Asiagate/607/12liu.html (503 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - ATHLETES
		As a child, Liu Xiang was a high jumper until his sports school asked him to give up the event because a bone test showed that he would not grow tall enough to become a world-class jumper.
		However, in the final, Liu's technique was nearly perfect as he barely touched the sixth hurdle and cleared all of the others cleanly.
		Liu was the first Chinese man to win an Olympic gold medal in athletics.
	www.olympic.org /uk/athletes/heroes/bio_uk.asp?heros=130916 (176 words)

	TIME Asia Print Page: Liu Xiang -- October 11, 2004 / Vol. 164, No. 15 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		As Liu Xiang raced to victory in the 110-meter hurdles at the Athens Olympics, his legs pumping with flawless precision to clock a world record-tying time of 12.91 sec., the panic creeping into sports announcers' voices was almost palpable.
		Liu does pay obligatory tribute to his nation, but he revels in the limelight, belting out karaoke songs on Chinese TV and even engaging in flirty banter with pretty anchors on air.
		Liu wasn't the only Asian to excel in a sport in which the region's athletes were expected to be outclassed.
	www.time.com /time/asia/magazine/printout/0,13675,501041011-709176,00.html (474 words)

	People's Daily Online -- Liu Xiang complains about life in slow lane
		China's 110m hurdles world record holder Liu Xiang said he was disappointed by the lack of competition after he cruised to victory at the National Track and Field Championships yesterday.
		Liu won the race so easily that nearest rival Shi Dongpeng was almost a metre behind when he crossed the finishing line.
		While Liu showed little enthusiasm for his visit to Shijiazhuang, residents of Hebei's provincial capital were ecstatic at the chance of seeing him.
	feeds.thechinanews.net /?rid=c3fbafcca9634108&cat=9366300fc9319e9b&f=1 (640 words)

	Liu Xiang sets Asian 110m hurdles mark
		Olympic gold medallist Liu Xiang of China coasted to a gold medal in the 110 metres hurdles, breasting the tape in 13.30 seconds, the fastest in the history of the Asian Athletics Championships, in Incheon City, Korea, on Friday.
		Liu erased the previous mark of 13.49 seconds, set by compatriot Li Tong at the 1993 edition of the championship in Kuala Lumpur.
		Liu, who also holds the Asian record in the event with a timing of 12.91 seconds, added, "I was given a task and am happy that I have fulfilled it."
	www.rediff.com /sports/2005/sep/02ath.htm (212 words)

	IAAF International Association of Athletics Federations - World Indoor Championships 2004 - news
		As expected, hurdler Xiang Liu continues to be the brightest star of Chinese athletics.
		Liu had even false started in the race and had to be careful on the second start.
		Liu said that he is bursting with energy to compete in Budapest, his coach was also surprised about the record which he had only expected to come in Budapest a few weeks later.
	www.iaaf.org /WIC04/news/Kind=2/newsId=24109.html (1271 words)

	Liu Xiang: Shanghai streak
		Liu's personal best going into the 110 metres hurdles final was 13.06 seconds.
		Liu shot to fame in 2002 when he set the world junior record of 13.12 seconds in the Lausanne Grand Prix.
		Liu Xiang may go on to become China's greatest track and field athlete.
	www.rediff.com /sports/2004/aug/28oly-ath5.htm (430 words)

	American Track and Field -- Regional News Article
		Liu was just one of eight Olympic champions crowned on the evening of August 27, 2004, at the Olympic Stadium in Athens.
		Liu Xiang may be second in popularity only to Yao Ming among China's current crop of sports stars.
		Liu tied Colin Jackson's 1993 world record (12.91) in the Athens gold- medal run, so the natural next step would be the world record.
	www.american-trackandfield.com /news/liuxiang05series1.html (677 words)

	Photos of Liu Xiang and flying cranes
		Television ads for Baisha featuring Liu Xiang with the slogan "My Heart is Flying" were banned from Beijing TV because of the tobacco association, and audiences have again questioned the propriety of an Olympic champion - a hero to schoolchildren everywhere - shilling for a cigarette maker.
		Liu Xiang is a popular hero, but in the commercial realm his actions have shown him to be unfamiliar with it, turning him into a joke, and he has nothing with which to protect himself.
		Liu liked the composition of the photobook, which arranges photos next to poems, and he said that he was not at all concerned over his image:
	www.danwei.org /media_and_advertising/photos_of_liu_xiang_and_flying.php (1213 words)

	Liu Xiang in dilemma as popularity rises
		Liu Xiang of China celebrates setting a new world record in the men's 110-metre race at the IAAF Super Grand Prix athletics meeting in Lausanne July 11, 2006.
		A fan, surnamed Liu, from China's northwest Shannxi Province says it is hard to spot Liu Xiang at national competitions.
		Liu Xiang (front) of China sets a new world record past Dominique Arnold of the U.S. in the men's 110-metre race at the IAAF Super Grand Prix athletics meeting in Lausanne July 11, 2006.
	www.chinadaily.com.cn /sports/2006-07/28/content_651817.htm (707 words)

	Chu Liu Xiang (Chor Lau Heung) Summaries
		Nan Ping walked up to a rock and knocked at a ring, she explained that her eldest martial arts sister was always in the convent and if she heard the noise she would open the entrance.
		Song TianEr and Li HongXiu woke up now and told Chu that Liu WuMei was suffering from the effects of the poison so she stayed at the house of a woodcutter to rest.
		She was scared out of her wits, she saw Liu lying there dead pale and a few ants were crawling out of her nose.
	www.spcnet.tv /gulong/chuliuxiang/chuliuxiang09.shtml (6202 words)

	TEARFUL VOW Liu ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Later, Sun Shang Xiang wanted to return to Wu with her stepson Liu Shan in order to tend to her mother, while Liu Bei was away campaigning in Yizhou.
		Liu Bei will speak like he doesn't want to fight her, and Sun Shang Xiang cries out his name a few times, and they will stand a fair distance away from each other.
		Liu Bei just turns round and tells him that both of his and Shang Xiang's feelings were true...
	www.lonely-room.org /vow/relationship.php (622 words)

	American Track and Field -- Regional News Article
		Liu will run the 110-meter hurdles, at which he tied the world record when he ran 12.91 to win the 2004 Olympic gold medal.
		The event will be part of Liu's first tour of competition in the United States, and his only scheduled appearance on the East Coast.
		Liu, also a two-time World Indoor Championships medalist and bronze medalist at the 2003 World Outdoor Championships, went into Athens as one of the favorites during a spectacular 2004 season in which nine races brought him eight victories and one photo-finish second.
	www.american-trackandfield.com /news/rbkgrandprix05xiang.html (362 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Olympics 2004 \| Athletics \| Xiang equals hurdles record
		Xiang led from the front and won with ease, with American Terrence Trammell taking the silver and Cuba's Anier Garcia clinching the bronze.
		Xiang was in shock following his stunning victory.
		Liu has always been fast in the latter part of the race and but not so good at starting.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/olympics_2004/athletics/3603174.stm (262 words)

	Liu Xiang impresses as China win 4 golds -DAWN - Sport; August 12, 2002
		COLOMBO, Aug 11: China’s Liu Xiang impressed by coasting to a comfortable win in the men’s 110 metres hurdles as his country bagged four golds on the third day of the Asian Athletics Championships.
		Xiang, who set a continental record in a Grand Prix ‘B’ level meet at Lausanne last month, led from the start and was clear of the field by 95 metres.
		Xiang eased up towards the end to finish with a timing of 13.56 seconds, which was way off his Asian record of 13.12 seconds and even outside the meet mark of 13.49.
	www.dawn.com /2002/08/12/spt3.htm (367 words)

	People's Daily Online -- China cheers Liu Xiang as Superman returns
		China greeted its favored son with cheers as hurdler Liu Xiang returned to Beijing from a world record run in Switzerland.
		July 13 is Liu Xiang's birthday and exactly five years ago, Beijing won the right to host the 2008 Olympic Games, in which China expects the 2004 Olympic champion to deliver another gold medal.
		Liu, who has complained the media frenzy in China that followed his Athens victory left him feeling penned in and naked, will have to face a new round of heat wave.
	feeds.beijingnews.net /?rid=e1a84973807d68e7&cat=55582c89cb296d4c&f=1 (412 words)

	Liu Xiang breaks 110m hurdles record - Sport - smh.com.au
		China's Liu Xiang smashed the 110 metres hurdles world record with a time of 12.88 seconds at a super grand prix meeting in Lausanne on Tuesday.
		Liu equalled it on his way to Olympic gold in Athens in 2004.
		Liu had his first victory at a grand prix meeting in Lausanne in 2002 and broke Renaldo Nehemiah's world junior record that had stood since 1978 on the track.
	www.smh.com.au /news/sport/liu-xiang-breaks-110m-hurdles-record/2006/07/12/1152637708356.html (307 words)

	Liu Xiang
		åå‘ Liu Xiang (77-6 BCE), a descendant of a younger brother of Liu Bang, founder of the Han dynasty, was in and out of office during his official career.
		Liu Xiang is known mainly as a bibliographer and anecdotal historian, but he was also a poet and writer of prose lamentations.
		ICTCL, p.566, says it had "seventy brief hagiographies of Daoist adepts", adding that the attribution to Liu Xiang is probably erroneous since it must date at least in part from several centuries later.
	www.silkqin.com /09hist/qinshi/liuxiang.htm (677 words)

	Liu Xiang makes history by winning men's 110m hurdles - Badminton Central Discussion Forums
		Liu, 21, last year's bronze medalist at world indoor and outdoor championships, clocked a world record-equaling time of 12.
		Liu was the only person running a near-perfect race - he barely touched the last hurdle only.
		Liu isnt a flash in the pan winner, he was consistently strong in all recent track meet.
	www.badmintoncentral.com /vb/showthread.php?p=178693 (1774 words)

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