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Unbearable heaviness of being

Liu Xiang, the Chinese son of wind, blew away the nation's greatest expectation for this Olympic Games, as his Olympic title-defending journey was interrupted by a severe ankle injury.

Physically, it is his ankle that supports his dashing body. Mentally, his body shoulders 1.3 billion people's eager anticipation, which is unbearable, and has been sighed into a veil of sorrow across the country.