Too-Heavy Medal: China's Hopes for Liu Xiang are Crushed

re: Too-Heavy Medal: China's Hopes for Liu Xiang are Crushed

kevin fu — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 09:41:29 GMT

I find Melinda Liu wrote articals all from the point that uglify chinese, that's very dangerous because it will mislead foreigners' view to china, *** Melinda Liu!

And I suggest newsweek should consider other persons' point about Olympic and China!

re: Too-Heavy Medal: China's Hopes for Liu Xiang are Crushed

ghostmasseur — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:58:50 GMT

" kevin fu (August 18, 2008 at 5:41 AM)

I find Melinda Liu wrote articals all from the point that uglify chinese, that's very dangerous because it will mislead foreigners' view to china, *** Melinda Liu!

And I suggest newsweek should consider other persons' point about Olympic and China!"

Ah, another Chinese government propaganda team member voicing what the politburo orders him to. Or maybe just another person posting from one of the thousands of Chinese Re-Education prisons, while having a guard's gun pointed at his head or reminding him that torture is a normal mode of prison life in China.

re: Too-Heavy Medal: China's Hopes for Liu Xiang are Crushed

Aditya Mookerjee — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:44:42 GMT

I enjoy the articles Newsweek International publishes on sport. The print edition of the magazine, should publish sports news and features, regularly. I am sure, that readers would appreciate being informed on sports, just as they appreciate being well informed while perusing your magazine.

re: Too-Heavy Medal: China's Hopes for Liu Xiang are Crushed

Hennessy — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:30:52 GMT

It was indeed bias in the artical.

Liu is a professional athelte but suffering too much pressures. Unlike this Liu melinda.

If all of you visiting china just having some fun and standing outside to critic on the politics, but not caring chinese people what they need or to help.not providing any contributions, so you are useless, please get away

re: Too-Heavy Medal: China's Hopes for Liu Xiang are Crushed

TroyceKey — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 04:46:14 GMT

Lui Xiang revealed that he not the great athlete that Chinese wanted him to be for them. Chinese people made him fail. The shame is on them not Lui Xiang but they are dishonest enough to not admit their own blame, as always.

re: Too-Heavy Medal: China's Hopes for Liu Xiang are Crushed

coviet — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 05:38:05 GMT

Not to offend the Chinese people but

personally i think it was such a “great performance” by both Liu and his team.

everyone should see it was coming.

Welcome to the worst side of chinese communists. money, power and control.

I hope you guys look deeper… it has been a well-crafted act. liu should have dropped out but there were so much money, pride involved. so there it went on display for everyone the “great performance”

The real victims are Liu himself, the Chinese people and the world.

i don’t want to politicize this episode. but let's look at the big picture and deeper behind all these Chinese OLYMPICS. No doubt the Chinese people are great and have many sport talents.

but there is the dangerous machine behind.

it is part of the communist game plan…

it’s hiding right behind Chinese nationalism..

PS: i lived under the communist regime before so i know the system. DON’T ever believe in them. Watch what they do. (these statements are applied to ALL communist regimes around the world — ex: russian current episode in georgia..

re: Too-Heavy Medal: China's Hopes for Liu Xiang are Crushed

martialguy — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:27:22 GMT

Chinese government wants the world to think that it cares so much about sports. One of its true endeavours is to develop technology to neutralize other nuclear powers during a potential nuclear war ( eg technology to shoot down sattellites essential for millitary communications) while the rest of the world is busy arguing about things like sports. Weaken one's opponents is as effective as streghthen oneself.

re: Too-Heavy Medal: China's Hopes for Liu Xiang are Crushed

hwoo7 — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:11:51 GMT

why some people always connect the withdrawl with the government? what is your real purpose? didn't you a person with emotions? can't you NBA fans show their saddness and sympathy to your MVPS? KOBE, for example, or the President of the states?

re: Too-Heavy Medal: China's Hopes for Liu Xiang are Crushed

pug_ster — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:47:25 GMT

While it is a great sadness that Liu Xiang is out like that, he has inspired many other Chinese that they can excel at Track and Field. The only other Chinese Athlete who can win gold this olympics is Zhang Wenxiu, woman's hammer thrower.

re: Too-Heavy Medal: China's Hopes for Liu Xiang are Crushed

Lisalilian — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:01:00 GMT

Melinda Liu, you're wrong somewhere. As a chinese I want to tell American friends what I saw the reactions of most Chinese to Liuxiang's withdrawl in our country.

First , most people, including Liu's couch didn't weep with disappointment at Liu’s withdrawal but his pain caused by his injury which is intensified just before he enter the stadium. If you understand Chinese, you can surf the net in Chinese, and you will find in blogs, forums and communities almost all chinese are surpport and encourage Liu and wish him recover from the injury early , paying their respects to an great anthlet and understand his withdrawl.

re: Too-Heavy Medal: China's Hopes for Liu Xiang are Crushed

Lisalilian — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:25:42 GMT

coviet, I don't know why you're so hostile to communist regime! Yes, there are some drawbacks of Chinese communist government at present, which is absolutly true and we all Chinese know this fact well. But what we know better is that in the long long histry of China, each dynasty had its own drawbacks, and each of them has its own way to improve and sustain its governing, including communist part in nowadays.

If you and many Americans like you, keep an hostile perception towards communist party, everthing happened in China will be disgusting, cruel or enven evil in your point of view. We can understand America, but why America can't understand China in a friendly way?

Last, I think sometimes Melinda Liu's posts didn't tell the truth in China, they only stand for her own view or her community's view, not common people in China.

re: Too-Heavy Medal: China's Hopes for Liu Xiang are Crushed

Hennessy — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:59:01 GMT

If there is a great joy of sb to combine LiuXiang to communist regime, he's stupid enough to think there is some mutual reason that Emmons failed in the last shot both in Athens and Beijing.

There is political system and maybe purpose of the government ,maybe there is connections and disturbs, but every sportman have their spirit of devote, we just concerning the game, the athlete but not other things.

nationalism? you know if there was nationalism of US people? how if all the world listen to you following your steps, that's satisfaction? such feudalism!

re: Too-Heavy Medal: China's Hopes for Liu Xiang are Crushed

hwoo7 — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:23:15 GMT

indeed, we hope every athlete can dispaly his/her own abilities to the best as they can, and can return home safe and sound, and we all feel sorry for the physical pains the athletes suffer, after years of hard training, the pain prevent them from the game. but life does not end here, as we all know. as a person with common sense, i think some should do as Lisalilian said, find some truth yourself: you can find how the Chinese audience show their encouragement and admiration and love when the Korean weightlifter get hurt and fell on the stage, or how they were moved when the Afghanistan girl running for the glory and honor of her country fell behind the others and continued. it is not the government that directs or guides them to do so, it is the human nature/ natural reflection. just as the people felt sad and miserable for 9.11. besides,every country has its own national uniqueness,different characteristics. all in all, difference is not and has never been seen a cause for hostility. now is is ignorance blended with arrogance that leads to sort of misundersatnding.