Regarding Liu Xiang's retirement today, let's complain a few words.

Just as I was writing this, Liu Xiang officially announced his retirement on Weibo. Over the years, he has participated in 48 world championships, 36 championships, 6 runners-up, and 3 third places. Yellow race, breaking the world record of 12.88, breaking the Olympic record of 12.91, the ninth lane of the World Championships miracle. In 2012, he returned from injury and equaled the world record of 12.87.

Throughout his career, Liu Xiang has won more than 70% of the world championships and more than 90% of the top three. What horrible data!

But many people only remember his two injury retirements, in 2008 and 2012.

'08 Beijing Olympics, foot injury. London '12 Olympics, Achilles tendon rupture.

It's all about feet, and at the end of the article, I'll share with you some idioms about feet and heels, which can be used.

Speaking of Liu Xiang, he broke the world youth record in the 110-meter hurdles in his early years, and completed the Grand Slam of Olympic champion, world champion and world record before the age of 25. Another sentence I saw, "For many people who watch the Olympics once every four years, watch the World Cup once, and rely on the occasional news and instant Baidu TV viewers for sports knowledge, they don't care about any great achievements that have been made, and only ask to watch the latest hot movies." And the blood of heroes, for them, will always be just ketchup. ”

History is always strikingly similar

"In 1988, Li Ning was old, and when it was time to retire, he was forced to participate in the Olympic Games and lost. After returning home, he was sent blades and ropes by enthusiastic spectators, called "gymnastics dead", sentenced to the crime of wiping his neck and hanging, and even the airport staff said "It's not good to fall, go to the Olympics and fall!".

In the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Yao Ming, who suffered a stress fracture for less than half a year, made an early comeback and led the Chinese team to force Spain, the king of Europe, into overtime, allowing China to play eighth in the world for the last time. If you had the right to choose at that time, would you like Yao Ming to play for a few more years, or would you like to come back early and fight for this eighth? It is these serious injuries that have not healed that make Yao Ming's NBA career only nine years. ”

We always ask for too much.

But the pain, injuries, and surgeries of athletes, especially Chinese athletes, never happen to spectators. For those people, they only watch the Olympics once every four years, they only watch the World Cup once every four years, they occasionally know that there is the European Cup final every May, the NBA Finals every June, and the more fashionable ones know that there is the NFL Super Bowl every February, and the NCAA Round of 64 tournament every March. They don't necessarily like sports that much, they just like the feeling that "the player I like is one with me, and if he succeeds, it means that I succeed, and if he fails, it means that I fail", and in the same way, "the player I hate when he fails, it's my big success." "That's it.

Therefore, before Liu Xiang retired in 08, when his feet were unbearable and he kicked the wall, some people said that he was an actor, and when he retired, some people said that you have to climb to the finish line. In 12 years, Liu Xiang knew that his feet were not good again, so he took the risk of rushing to the first hurdle, and then ruptured his Achilles tendon, jumped to the finish line with one foot and kissed the hurdle, and said goodbye to the field. Many people said that he was a showman.

Liu Xiang's "can't afford to lose" is also his "can't afford to lose" under his huge expectations and huge interests. It's not that you can't afford to lose in the competitive field. The circumstances and expectations of all parties at the time required him not to lose. The fact is: at that time, it was no longer up to him to decide whether he could afford to lose or lose. As said: In fact, in the later stage, whether he can run or not, how to run is not something that he and his coach can solve. Speaking of benefits, there are teams from the team to the General Administration of Sports waiting for a piece of the pie. Speaking of image, he has [been] representing Shanghai, the Chinese nation, and even the country.

In the past eleven years, the country has almost crushed him with honor or something.

Today I look back at the Athens '04 Olympics:

The race is on! Liu Xiang has had a very smooth start! He is currently in first place, next to Trammell and Olijars

Liu Xiang! Leading position! Liu Xiang! Liu Xiang won! Liu Xiang won! Liu Xiang won! Liu Xiang made history! A black-haired, yellow-skinned Chinese became a world flyer! Liu Xiang made history! Liu Xiang won the world championship! Olympic champion. Liu Xiang won the Olympic gold medal. A new Olympic record was set. 12.91 seconds......

This moment deserves to be remembered by all Chinese, because it is difficult to reappear in the foreseeable future.

Back to business

Seize this opportunity,

I would like to share with you some idioms about feet

put your best foot forard

Here's what it means to "make a good impression."

Better get a haircut before you go to that job intervie

tomorro. You ant to put your best foot forard because there are

tenty other people after the same job.

I finally got a date ith that girl I've been trying to go out

ith so long. So I'm putting my best foot forard and sending her a

dozen roses and a box of chocolates before I pick her up

tomorro.

get off on the rong foot

Contrary to the one above, bad impression

hen Joe ent to his ne job, he got off on the rong foot--on

the first morning he upset his ne boss by arriving at the store

to hours late. And right no he's out looking for a job

(Late for the first day of work)

land on your feet

To land on your feet

Literally: your feet stand on the ground. The exact meaning is: after you have experienced some difficulties, you have finally returned to a stable state, which can also be said to be good luck.

My brother Joe got fired for never coming to ork on time, but

he landed on his feet and found another job that paid tice as much

money.

put your foot in your mouth

(Literally, the real hardcore)

This idiom refers to inadvertently saying the wrong thing and hurting someone, making yourself embarrassed

I certainly put my foot in my mouth at the party last night hen

I asked Mister Bron to say hello to his ife for me. Someho I'd

forgotten that his ife died six months ago.

Something else about heel heel

on One's Heel immediately turned around

Heel followed

3.Bring to heel, make obedient

/follo/trend on the heels of... behind

Up One's Heels, (after work) relaxed for a while

One's Heels Escape, Escape

a clean/fair/light pair of heels (as soon as possible) run away, run away

to one's heels and slippery slippery away

Excerpt from "Frank Wong"

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