Liu Xiang attends his retirement ceremony in Shanghai May 17, 2015. REUTERS/Aly Song
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China bade a fond farewell to its greatest athlete on Sunday as Liu Xiang, the nation’s peerless sprint hurdler, took a bow in front of 40,000 fans in his home city of Shanghai after a spectacular Diamond League meeting.
On a night when Ethiopian Almaz Ayana recorded the third fastest 5,000 metres in history, nothing could upstage the ceremony after the event in the Shanghai Stadium to honour the former Olympic 110m hurdles champion Liu, who retired last month.
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