World Indoor Athletics 2010: Liu Xiang to defend 60m crown after Beijing heartache

Bystaff Published: 9:43AM GMT 05 Mar 2010

Overcoming the barrier: China"s Liu Xiang ready for lapse Photo: GETTY IMAGES

China"s former Olympic hold up Liu Xiang will urge his 60 metres hurdles pretension at the World Indoor Championships in Doha subsequent week.

The 26-year-old, who won the pretension in Valencia dual years ago, will be creation his lapse to tip tellurian foe for the initial time given his Olympic pretension counterclaim finished with an Achilles damage at the Beijing Games.

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Liu, who returned to the lane in his home city of Shanghai last Sep after surgery to correct the injury, pronounced he was far from his most appropriate and would be no compare for Cuba"s Dayron Robles, who took Liu"s 110m climax in Beijing.

"It is silly to think that I will even get on the podium," he said.

"My idea is to get to the final. At the moment, there is no disbelief that I would lose to Robles in 60 or 110 metres. He is obviously the most appropriate in the universe now."

Robles, who done a inapplicable designation in a feverishness to miss out on the last in Valencia dual years ago, will be prime but faces a clever plea from American twice universe indoor hold up Terrence Trammell, who has the heading time of the year, 7.41 seconds.

Liu is now in Beijing for the annual assembly of the Chinese People"s Political Consultative Conference, the advisory physique to the inhabitant council of that has been a part of for 3 years.

Watch entertainment live online to one side at telegraph.co.uk/athleticslive, with movement from the IAAF indoor assembly in Lievin on Mar 5, prior to full live coverage of the World Indoor Athletics Championships on Mar 12, thirteen and 14, in organisation with Aviva.