Yes, but people expected more. The pressure from China was huge, he's a national icon. He's goin out of Olympics history with one Gold medal and zero in the other two. One Gold at WC Osaka, Silver at WC in 2011 and 2005. 3x Gold at Asian games, but no one gives two cents about that. He was destined for at least 2 Olympic Gold medals and at WC, right now his career is disappointing because of injuries.
Never overhype a one time champion? Personally I like the guy. But let's be honest he was not dominating the competition as of late. There was Drobles, Trummel, David Oliver, Meritt - a lot of competition.
Some quotes from wiki: In 2002 he set an Asian record time at the Athletissima meeting, completing the event in 13.12 seconds. This also broke Renaldo Nehemiah's long standing and world junior record, which had stood for almost 25 years. He improved even further at the 2004 Athens Olympics. Although he was not considered a favourite for the event, he won the Olympic final by some distance to take the gold medal in a world record-equalling time of 12.91 seconds, matching the feat of Colin Jackson. This was a new Olympic record and was almost three tenths of a second faster than the runner-up Terrence Trammell. Liu finished the season with four of the year's ten fastest clockings. Reaching 17 finals in the 60 m indoor hurdles and the 110 metre hurdles, he lost just two, both to American Allen Johnson. Liu set a new world record in the 110 metre hurdles, at the Super Grand Prix in Lausanne on July 11, 2006, with a time of 12.88 seconds (+1.1 m/s tailwind). The record was ratified by the IAAF.[8] In that same race, American Dominique Arnold had also beaten the previous record with a time of 12.90 seconds.[9] In September, he won gold at IAAF World Athletics Final in Stuttgart, Germany with 12.93 seconds. On August 31, 2007 at the World Athletics Championships in Osaka, Japan, Liu won gold in the 110 metre hurdles with 12.95 seconds to become the World Champion for the first time. In Liu's first competition of 2012, he was matched up against Dayron Robles at the Birmingham Indoor Grand Prix and this time he won cleanly with an Asian record time of 7.41 seconds for the 60 m hurdles. In the outdoor season he set a 110 m hurdles meet record at the Golden Grand Prix Kawasaki [30], then ran 12.97 seconds to win at his home nation 2012 IAAF Diamond League meet, the Shanghai Golden Grand Prix. This was his first run under 13 seconds since 2007 and he beat Americans David Oliver and Jason Richardson by some distance.[31] He followed this with a run of 12.87 seconds to win at the Prefontaine Classic, matching the world record time albeit with wind-assistance of 2.4 m/s Point is, don't call him overhyped.
That is debatable.... 2004-2008 hype is ok After 2008 still the same hype... nothing has changed except that he is not in shape of 2004
Some of these young athletes have no sportsmanlike conduct whatsoever/ especially young girls... I just want to beat them over the head with a baseball bat...
Men's handball, men's water polo, sailing and taekwondo competitions aren't over yet, and we expect a medal in those sports. And I'm part Slovenian so your troll really doesn't bother me.
Did y'all already mention Sanchez winning the 400m hurdles at 35 years of age? Taylor looked done. Could have been poor preparation or execution though..
Google's DOODLE is HURDLES today. 13.4 seconds! WWW.GOOGLE.COM http://www.google.com/doodles/hurdles-2012
Scumbag Mario playin for Japan instead of Italy, those fake citizenships are digusting! "Ohh, I will have more playing time on the Japanese squad".
