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I feel sorry for Liu Xiang not because he withdrew from the games, but how much pressure he put on from the public. I don’t feel anything bad or shame personally that Liu Xiang withdrew from the games. His right leg was badly injured. He can’t even walk properly, so how he can complete the games. Many put all their hopes on him for all the opportunities of winning gold medals of athlete events this week. He even needs to make a public apology announcement today for his withdrawal. It’s just ridiculous. He is not the only one in the whole event. The Beijing sport media even prepared a poster of “his winning” image for the publication one day before he withdrew the game. They thought once he won, they would have the poster published right away. Unfortunately, he withdrew next day. Then the media had the poster of his “painful look” image published right after he withdrew. At last, both posters had also been published on the same day. You can see how much pressure people gave it to him, and how ridiculous the public media is.

I don’t feel right that China is obsessed with trying to out-medal the Americans, this is ridiculous. I hope this is not true. It doesn’t really matter who won the medals, and how many gold medals have been won by China. Overall, it’s an international game held once in four years, it’s about union of international sports not the opportunity of necessary showing national power. China had a great open ceremony shown to the world; it’s great and fantastic, but obsession of winning most of the gold medals over particular country then it doesn’t sound good to me.