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 ...

BEIJING (AP) -- Chinese hurdler Liu Xiang is suffering pain from an inflamed hamstring as he prepares to defend his Olympic title, according to a report posted on his official Web site Sunday. Liu, 25 ...

BEIJING (AP) Former Olympic champion hurdler Liu Xiang confirmed his retirement on Tuesday, citing age and injuries 2 1/2 years after his last race. The BEIJING (AP) Former Olympic champion hurdler ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Olympic gold medal-winning hurdler Liu Xiang announced his retirement on Tuesday, ending a run in the sport marked by records and frustrated by successive late-career ...

SHANGHAI, CHINA - JANUARY 28: (CHINA MAINLAND OUT)Liu Xiang attends the 12th Shanghai CPPCC meeting on 28th January, 2015 in Shanghai, China.(Photo by TPG/Getty Images) Getty Images Chinese hurdler ...

Chinese hurdler Liu Xiang, a delegate of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), is surrounded by journalists as he arrives at the Great Hall of the People to attend the ...

Remember China's Liu Xiang completely collapsing at the first hurdle of a 110-meter heat during the Olympics before hopping around to "finish" it to a huge round of applause from spectators? Well, it ...

BEIJING — Former Olympic champion hurdler Liu Xiang confirmed his retirement on Tuesday, citing age and injuries 2 1/2 years after his last race. The 31-year-old Liu wrote in a lengthy statement on ...

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 ...