China's record-breaking athlete Liu Xiang is plagued by injury. BEIJING, Aug. 18, 2008 -- When defending Olympic hurdles champion and Chinese national hero Liu Xiang stepped onto the track at the ...

BEIJING, Aug. 18 -- Arguably the biggest star of the Summer Games, Chinese hurdler Liu Xiang walked off the track before competing in his 110-meter first-round heat with an obvious injury. Liu, the ...

BEIJING, March 17 (Reuters) - Liu Xiang's road back from injury to the sort of world-beating performances that earned him that status of China's top track and field athlete looks like being a long, ...

The pathbreaking champion, whose later career was tormented by recurring injuries, announced his retirement from competition on Tuesday. By Austin Ramzy and Jess Macy Yu Many of China’s athletes are ...

EUGENE, Oregon (Reuters) - No one has ever run the 110 metres hurdles faster than China's Liu Xiang did on Saturday, wind or no wind, but the former world record holder was not ready to proclaim ...

Liu once held the world mark when he finished in 12.88 seconds during a race in July 2006. Nearly two years later just before the 2008 Beijing Olympics Robles took the record. And there it has stood.