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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

BEIJING – They watched, anguished, and they cried and commiserated — on social media, on the streets of the Chinese capital and, in the case of one anchor, even on state television. Many Chinese ...

Reporting from Shanghai — The man who fell to his knees when a nation expected the most from him is back on his feet. Chinese track fans had watched in anger and frustration as superstar hurdler Liu ...

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 - Within half an hour of Chinese hurdler Liu Xiang's crash in the 110-metres hurdles race at the London Olympics yesterday, Nike made a swift rehash of its 2008 reaction with a timely Weibo ad ...