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...sports hospital staff had tried intensive massage to heal the injuries. But it was of no use. The throbbing, exacerbated by a training session two days before, was so severe that the hurdler was shivering during rehab treatments. Liu was determined to compete unless the pain was "intolerable," said Feng Shuyong, China's head athletics coach. Apparently, it was. Mighty Liu Xiang had dropped...
...said with a grin. At a party in February, I asked several neighbors their hopes for the coming year; the most popular response was for a successful Games. Clearly, fixing up our courtyard was key to that. "The work here isn't just good for us," says my neighbor Feng Huiming, who works at the local post office. "It's good for the world...
That's the closest most of them will come to seeing the Olympics in person. "We have no access to tickets," says Feng. "And even if we did, we couldn't afford them." An Olympic slogan repeated on billboards throughout the city reads I PARTICIPATE; I CONTRIBUTE; I'M HAPPY. After months of participating and contributing, the people in this corner of the capital will have to be happy catching the Games, as the rest of the world does, at home on television...
...everyone in the disaster zone is ready to accuse the local officials of corruption, but they are still demanding answers. "It's a question we are asking," says Feng Jianyun, 34, who was sitting outside the Jiuzhou Sports Center in Mianyang, which has been turned into a center for thousands of people left homeless by the quake. "How could a place with so many people inside not be built better? That's what I want to know. We should not forget a lesson that has been learned in blood." with reporting by Lin Yang/Dujiangyan
...Feng Zhongping of the China Institute of Contemporary International Relations says Brown is "building trust with the Chinese leaders. He thinks China will play a favorable role [in its relations with] Britain in the age of globalization. This opinion sets him apart from other European leaders." The Prime Minister dismisses reports that he entertained any thoughts of boycotting the Beijing Olympics in protest over China's crackdown in Tibet. He always intended, he says, to miss the opening celebrations but to attend the closing ceremonies, where the mantle of the Olympics will be passed on to London, which will host...