Liu Xiang, the reigning Olympic champion in the 110-meter hurdles and China’s face of the 2008 Games, withdrew from competition Monday with what his coach and a team official said was a lingering foot injury. The moment Liu walked off the track at the National Stadium, the world got new insight into an emerging superpower long thought to be unemotional, detached and inscrutable – a perception reinforced by the stiff-faced and rigid soldiers patrolling the Olympic grounds.
"We got to see China’s heart".
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