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Liu Xiang is back – Shanghai REPORT – Samsung Diamond League

15.05.2011 World

Shanghai, China - A victory for the city’s favourite son, Liu Xiang, brought the Dunlop Shanghai Golden Grand Prix – the second of this year’s Samsung Diamond League series – to a tumultuous conclusion here in front of a crowd of 30,000.

The former World and Olympic 110m Hurdles champion lived up to all the local expectations – and apparently exceeded his own – in putting an end to the unbeaten outdoor sequence of 18 finals races established by one of the other marquee names of this meeting, David Oliver. And Liu Xiang’s time of 13.07sec became the eighth world-leading performance of the night.

Liu’s new starting technique – taking seven rather than eight steps to the first hurdle – appeared to work perfectly as he took hold of the race and never let go, unleashing pandemonium as he crossed the line with his face breaking into a smile that was at least partly of relief.

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