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Earlier this spring, Liu had disappeared from public view, nursing a sore hamstring that led him to pull out of a May race and triggered another injury to his Achilles tendon. By the start of the summer, the protective cocoon around the hurdler had reached epic proportions. In June, Dayron...
At a press conference shortly after Liu pulled out, Liu's coach Sun Haiping, who has mentored the Shanghai-born athlete since he was a child, dissolved into tears. Dabbing his eyes with a tissue, he described how Liu's hamstring and Achilles tendon had caused excruciating pain and how...
At the U.S. Olympic trials in late June, Tyson Gay looked like he was destined to be the greatest sprinter of all time. He broke the American record in the 100m and even finished the final in 9.68 seconds, the fastest time in human history. (A strong tailwind, however, nullified...
TIME: Walk us through your schedule after you strained your left hamstring on July 5.
Gay: After the trials, I went home to Texas for about three days. Then I went to Germany to see the doctor [Hans-Wilhelm Muller-Wohlfarth, who treats many track and soccer stars in Europe] about my hamstring. And I didn't do any running for almost three weeks. No...