On Chinese hurdler Liu Xiang‘s completely unexpected withdrawal from a competition today, rapid-response blogger He Caitou posted simply this comment from another post on Baidu:
前天晚上作了一个梦，梦见刘翔召开新闻发布会，宣布因为伤病不得已决定退出本届奥运会，并向所有关心支持自己的朋友道歉。
很奇怪的一个梦，然后第二天就看到刘翔脚伤的报道，不知道这会不会是真的。
请保留此帖，勿删，虽然我也是刘翔的粉丝，也希望他能参加并且成功卫冕。
The day before yesterday I had a dream, and I dreamt that Liu Xiang was holding a press conference, saying that due to injury he had no choice but to make the decision to pull out of the Olympic Games, and with that he apologized to all his caring supporters and friends.
A very strange dream, but then the next day I saw reports of Liu Xiang's foot injury, and I didn't know if they were real.
Please preserve this comment, do not delete it. I too am a fan of Liu Xiang's, and I hope to see him compete and successfully defend his championship.
A very strange dream, but then the next day I saw reports of Liu Xiang's foot injury, and I didn't know if they were real.
Please preserve this comment, do not delete it. I too am a fan of Liu Xiang's, and I hope to see him compete and successfully defend his championship.
Written byJohn Kennedy
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http://qq0526.blogspot.com/2008/05/jb.html
The above blogger is from Taiwan.When I was reading it,just cannot stop laughing.
基里巴斯國->基巴國->雞巴國->JB國->基國
The above terms are used extensively on Chinese BBS,blogs,and forums,to substitue one nation.If you can read Chinese,you know what these terms stand for.
基里巴斯國（The Republic of Kiribati），全稱為基里巴斯人民共和國。 簡稱基國。
獨立日：4月1日獨立日：4月1日
Date of independent:1-April.
國旗：中間為一隻烏骨雞。 這是基國的國鳥。
National flag:A black bone chicken,which is the national bird.(ali baba said:in Chinese,black and none sound the same,so it is a no-bone chicken.烏 = 无
首都：塔瑪地（Tamadi）(他妈?)
@John Kennedy
As moderator, you have right not to publish my post. I can accept that. However, if you publish it, that means my post passed your minimum acceptance criteria. If it passed your minimum criteria, you need to explain what do you mean by “go elsewhere”.
– no more in this thread?
– no more in any thread by John Kennedy?
– no more in globalvoicesonline.com?
It is not the best I can come out to describe what ali baba has been doing to his country. But it is the most humerous way I can think of without offending him in a political way. If you can not deal with the rough edge of Chinese-go-speech-of-freedom, DONT PREACH.
Is that you who posted xtube.com in one of the post?
@ ali baba
Your behavior here, which keeps on tarnishing your country’s reputation in exchange for the favor of people like John Kennedy, is a typical “Modern day 奴才.Boot-lickers.”
I have tried not to go to those offensive political words but you started the game. Let me tell you what I really think people like you:
– 民族败类，or, 丧家的出卖灵魂的乏走狗。
Sad for Liu, sad for China, sad for some of the posters. Sometimes no talent may be better than misdirected talents. Creative name calling definitely requires talent.
@ subjectivelistener;
Some perspective on ali baba. He is a Falun Goner. Hope that explains your insight about ali baba’s extrordinarily strong fingers.
@ ali baba;
I see some Kool-Aid in your future. My advise to you is to run as fast as you can — run like the wind — when you see Master Li coming with the Kool-Aid tray. Don’t just work on them fingers. Work on them legs too.
Ben,
Keep your sadness to yourself,your sadness belongs to you, don’t give it to other people beacuse would not help to reduce your level of sadness, most of the chinese people are very understanding, Very reasonable, and has faith on him. Sadness does hnot help.
To all you Wo Mao Dang.
Another Liu Xiang,another Yeo Ming,45 gold medals,even if China can round up all the medals,gold,silver and bronze,so what?
Would it make CHINA a modern sports nation?
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1644120,00.html
Article on time.com
China’s Disposable Athletes
Tuesday, Jul. 17, 2007 By JODI XU/BEIJING
china sports athletes
When Zou Chunlan 邹春兰 left school to become a professional athlete, her recruiting coach assured the 13-year-old that the nation’s huge sports bureaucracy would look after her for the rest of her life. All she had to worry about was winning. For a decade, Zou followed his advice, winning the 48-kg national weightlifting title in 1990 when she was 19 years old and pocketing four other national championships. But when she retired in 1993, Zou discovered that the coach’s side of the bargain wasn’t going to be met. After three years of menial jobs in the women’s weightlifting team’s kitchen, she was asked to leave.
With her little education and total ignorance of the real world, Zou had little choice but to turn to physical labor. After stints carrying sacks on a construction site and selling lamb kebabs in the street, she ended up as a masseuse in a public bathhouse earning $60 a month. Her fate isn’t unusual. A weightlifting coach explained to the Beijing News that Zou wasn’t the only retired weightlifter struggling with the real world. “Zou’s national medals are worthless. There are world champions who end up jobless after retirement.”
The system that is so good at churning out Olympic medalists seems to be even better at producing poverty-stricken retired athletes. Last year, China’s national news agency Xinhua reported that almost half of 6,000 professional athletes retiring from competition each year end up jobless or without further schooling plans. Among them, the winner of the 1999 Beijing International Marathon Ai Dongmei, 26, who announced last year that she had no choice but to sell off her medals so that she could feed her family. Former Asian weightlifting champion Cai Li died of pneumonia at age 33 after he couldn’t afford to pay his medical bills. Liu Fei, a seven-time national champion and world champion in acrobatic gymnastics, struggles to live on the $20 she earned monthly from tutoring gymnastics.
According to the China Sports Daily, nearly 80% of China’s 300,000 retired athletes are struggling with joblessness, injury or poverty. Many athletes suffer from sports injuries and health problems caused by their training. Zou came out of the system with her own appalling legacy. She says the pills she was required to take made her grow a beard and develop a prominent Adam’s apple and a deep voice. “My coach told me it was a nutrition booster. I trusted him,” Zou says. The steroids also made her infertile. Now, she must shave every couple of days.
http://news.boxun.com/forum/200808/boxun2008b/3722.shtml
主题：世界冠军中国艾冬梅摆地摊 生活所迫冠军卖奖牌“孩子再当运动员就把她的腿打折”
Sports, indeed, is to check who is the fittest, rather than who is the most famous. It is very common in sports that some athelets are less fit than others no matter how good they were. Liu Xiang is no exceptional.
It is a pity for Liu Xiang, but far from sadness. He is sad but audience should not.
In fact, as a Chinese living outside China, I am pretty comfortable when Lang Ping led the victory of US volley ball team over China in front of President of China, that is the beauty of the sports.
I admit my patience ran dry when I saw some loser’s nagging. This is beyond sports. Still, I wish appologize if some folks feel uncomfortable about my posts. (Just that, my appology excludes ali baba.)
(1) Last year, China’s national news agency Xinhua reported that almost half of 6,000 professional athletes retiring from competition each year end up jobless or without further schooling plans.
(2) According to the China Sports Daily, nearly 80% of China’s 300,000 retired athletes are struggling with joblessness, injury or poverty. Many athletes suffer from sports injuries and health problems caused by their training.
To all you Wu Mao Dang, subjectivelistener,so_damn_lame,and others,the above 2 quotes,both come from official Chinese News agencies,both are very serious problems.Why is it that all of you “Love China” bloggers never ever say anything about these 2 topics?
Is it because they have retired,they are not CHINESE anymore?
Is it because you Wu Mao Dang,are only capable of foul mouth name calling,are incapable to engage in any meaningful discussion?
Regardless of what really happened or why, Liu Xiang now has a great chance to be a hero again. He can strive for the next Olympics – and show his country what a true Olympic Champion is – one who overcomes the greatest difficulty to achieve his or her best. The Olympics is about struggle and challenge and redemption thru sport. China claims it protects the Olympic Spirit, now its hero Liu Xiang alone has the one true opportunity to show the world that China indeed understands what the Olympic spirit is. He must continue and run in London. EVen if he doesn’t win Gold, he will have become a hero again. It is his duty, it is his fate. It was and is and has always been his destiny I think. This achievement will be greater than all the Gold medals he could have won in Beijing. I am not a big fan of Liu Xiang but I am a big fan of China, and now Liu can show the world that China is truly a great country.
@ali baba
I am no longer one of the 50 cents guys. I got a paid raise. I am one of the 60 cent guys now.
Anyhow, I see that you are still only working on them fingers. You got to work on them legs too. Working the genie out that lamp of yours ain’t going to help you when Master Li comes with that Kool-Aid tray.
Also, that last line about engaging in meaningful discussion was freaking hilarious, especially when it is coming from you.