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Old Aug 19th, 2008, 04:51 AM       
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Originally Posted by Colonel Flagg View Post
How about the story of that Chinese Hurdler - Li Xiang? The hype before the olympics was huge, what with all the stories (in ESPN and SI to boot) claiming him to be the "hope of 1.3 billion chinese" only to come up lame in the first 110 meter Hurdle qualifying heat.

Sucks to be him right about now.
Especially once the Chinese government starts torturing him for not living up to the hype.
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