There was some officious Chinese stirring up the discussion on the nation's reaction to Liu hypothetically failing to win the gold medal on the internet. Quite a portion of Chinese netizens, majorly consisting of people age between 15-30,said Liu should not be blame in the hypothetical situation. Some people，who I thought them being ill-intentioned，"predicted" that under pressure Liu would flee the competition. Well, the ill-intentioned get to laugh now. Liu quit the 1st round during the time when players getting ready for the second firing after someone beat the gun. He limped off with a painful injury.

When the announcer informed a stadium of puzzled Chinese, each of them were ready to shout and cheer at the moment Liu spins, a loud and long sigh burst in Birds' Nest, I can sense the astonished and disappointed tone of all the audience.

One of my friend was standing close enough to clearly record every movement and facial expression of Liu in the Birds' Nest with clouds of fans. She said the fans started shouting "LIU Xiang jiayou (a term to cheer the players in Chinese)" two hours before Liu showed up on the track. When she heard Liu quit, she can't help the emotions burst into tears like any Chinese fans there, and the next thing they want to do is to leave the stadium.

Liu is an excellent athlete. His magical performance four years ago introduced the whole nation to the excitement of 110-meter hurdles and the joy of witnessing Liu's every single winning. And in the past four years he was keeping his legend for the most of time. Liu's character is adorable. Every Chinese remembers what he said after winning gold medal "Who convinced the world that the yellow can't achieve top eight in such kind of sports? I am the Olympic champion." He likes to challenge, and he is qualified to do so. He was becoming an icon of Chinese pride and glory. Thinking about Chinese pride and glory, the old way is to date back to ancient times. I do respect and love the Chinese history and culture, but honestly speaking, the glorious ancient history is too far away from us, fading and not as exciting as 2004 Heroic LIU Xiang wining Olympic gold medal. Ever since, the nation was expecting to wave the national flags on Liu's victorious moments, especially the one in 2008 in Beijing.

Nobody knows Liu would really have no choice but quit, including those "accomplished predictors" .The injury, the cause of his quit, was an old one, and it was reported to be under control. Liu was said to have achieved around 12'90 in a test on August 8th.However his good condition just wait till last Saturday. And this morning, before his went to the call room, three doctors tried to control his pain, but unfortunately, even some extreme acesodyne methods could not ease his pain. Liu insisted to compete. SUN Haiping, Liu's coach referred to this determination as putting his life at risk. When he appeared on the track, he managed to walk normally at the beginning. But after a warm-up sprint, Liu can't hide his pain anymore. He rested on his knees, with an aching expression. After he got on his feet, he limped, still looking painful. But he went straight to the block and bend to be ready for the starting gun. He was grinding his teeth to tolerate. The gun fired, all of the players started. There was a false start. Liu's Olympic ended right in front of the first hurdle.

Banners in air, people stunned. Why? Athletes quit because of injuries are common. Why Liu's quit hurt the Chinese so much? Does it has anything to do with the lost of hope repeat to be champion? These days we have several athletes failed to repeat miracles( SHI Zhiyong, weightlifting gold medalist, quit during the game for injury,etc.) , but no audience would text messages, make phone calls to tell acquaintances like what we react to Liu's quit.

Liu was a miraculous golden boy. All we know about him is, he comes he wins. We know nothing about how he was trained to be a champion. We don't know about his injuries, his rise and fall. From the day we heard about him, he is always with good news. Almost Four years he often kept winning and winning. We just don't see him lose. And perhaps he is the first Chinese athletes who kept the image of healthy, dynamic and indefectible. Lost in his victories, the Chinese has forgotten Liu is after all a human being.

When I saw the contrastive pictures of people smiling before while weeping after today's event，I realized something quite unfamiliar in the slogan of 2008 Beijing Olympics "One World, One Dream". When the theme song "You and Me" went along with the shots of Liu today, the song for the first time touched me.