LONDON – The sight was both pathetic and ennobling, depressing and uplifting. There was Liu Xiang, his second consecutive Olympics ruined almost immediately by catastrophic injury, hopping toward the ...

LONDON -- Last week Yao Ming, the greatest basketball player in Chinese history, was speaking here about the coming redemption of Liu Xiang. Four years ago in Beijing, the greatest track athlete in ...

Liu Xiang’s one-legged finish after falling at the first hurdle in London seemed to offer a dramatic counterpoint to China’s “gold or nothing” approach to the games. CCTV presenter Yang Jian choked up ...

China's 110 m hurdles Olympic gold medallist Liu Xiang is welcomed by a local official upon arrival at Shanghai's Hong Qiao airport September 3, 2004. [Reuters] China's Olympian and NBA basketball ...

BEIJING (AP) China's former Olympic champion hurdler Liu Xiang plans to announcement his retirement next week following years of nagging injuries, a local BEIJING (AP) China's former Olympic champion ...

China is loaded with medal hopefuls and is in a position to better their performance from the last Olympics, which is saying a lot considering this is the nation that took home the most golds in 2008 ...