Video: Reactions to Liu Xiang and the race that wasn´t

China's star hurdler Liu Xiang, who won gold at the 2004 Athens Olympics, pulled out of the Beijing Olympics yesterday, disappointing hordes of fans. The Wall Street Journal talks to the man on the streets to find out what they think.

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Hight time to blame the Beijing smog which vanished for 10 days and which no west media dared to report.

0-for-Beijing: Americans shut out in track cycling
By TIM REYNOLDS,AP - Aug 16,
Olympics Gallery BEIJING (AP)—Those now-infamous black masks were intended to keep the four U.S. track cyclists who donned them in Beijing’s airport healthy and happy.
The plan failed on both counts.....

http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/beijing/cycling/news;_ylt=AmN5YPyrxUjbwOZA19QckBCPaJh4?slug=ap-cyc-ustrackcycling&prov=ap&type=lgns

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