After his tragic withdrawal from the Olympic Games in Beijing, the Chinese athletics star Liu Xiang might also miss the World Athletics to be held in August 2009 in Berlin.
The 25-year-old athlete, Olympic champion in the 110 meter hurdles in 2004, will undergo an operation on a tendon in his right foot right in Houston in mid-December, to be followed by a rehabilitation of between five and six months in the United States.
"I do not know if I can go back to the World Cup to run," said Liu in Monaco in his first public appearance since the Games. "I'm more worried about the healing of my foot in my return next season."
"It is perhaps fate, and something that really maybe you can help me in life. Sometimes you have to deal with unhappiness. This injury has given me the opportunity to deeply consider my future," commented Chinese athlete.
On his surgery and the chances of competing in 2009, Xiang confessed that need at least "six months of rehabilitation before he can use his tips on running shoes, and found that" it does not matter so much next season as well development of their own recovery. "
Finally, Xiang recalled the pressure he lived in the Olympic Games in Beijing. "Every Chinese athlete had pressure. Everyone expected more from what could be done. People wanted to see me win. But for the athletes, anything can happen. It is normal and just to accept winning or losing," he concluded.
Liu, a hero in his country, caused uproar in China in August to be forced to withdraw through injury in the first round qualifying for the 110 meter hurdles for the Games in Beijing.
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