The 110-meter hurdles is shaping up as one of the biggest showdowns of the 2008 Summer Olympics, as Cuba's Dayron Robles has just broken the world record owned by China's biggest star.
Robles set a new world record by crossing the finish line in 12.87 seconds today in Ostrava, Czech Republic, breaking the previous record of 12.88, set by China's Liu Xiang. Liu is China's biggest star and its best hope of a transcendent performance in Beijing, and today's performance clearly establishes Robles as Liu's biggest rival.
Said the 21-year-old Robles:
"It's such a good time; I wasn't expecting that. Wow! I do not know if I can beat Liu Xiang in Beijing now. But we will see."Robles beat Liu twice head-to-head last year. They won't face each other again until Beijing.
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6-13-2008 @ 12:27AM
Boris said...
I'm Cuban and very happy of the news. The guys with CBS Sports called me to ask how "Dayron Robles" was pronaounced, wow, I learned right then about the record. Liu Xiang had it comming, let's see at the Olympics. Notice that it is the first time in decades since a Cuban breaks a world record in a track event. While jumps and throwing events have seen several Cubans at the top of the world ranking, this is ...and here I run out of vocabulary to describe the feeling.
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