BEIJING: It was not as if Dayron Robles needed reminders of how precarious it is to be a hurdler.
Though Robles is still just 21, he has had to deal with the unexpected in big meets: ending up out of the medals or the very race itself.
But the reminders poured in just the same in the past week in Beijing: with Robles's rival, Liu Xiang, withdrawing from what was supposed to be the signature race of these Games with an Achilles tendon injury and with the American Lolo Jones looking in firm control of the women's 100-meter hurdles only to clip the penultimate hurdle and go tumbling to the track.
"It's a very difficult event," said Robles, who is Cuban. "You have to go so fast and before you realize it, the hurdle is in front of you; and before you realize it, you can be on the ground."
Though Robles is still just 21, he has had to deal with the unexpected in big meets: ending up out of the medals or the very race itself.
But the reminders poured in just the same in the past week in Beijing: with Robles's rival, Liu Xiang, withdrawing from what was supposed to be the signature race of these Games with an Achilles tendon injury and with the American Lolo Jones looking in firm control of the women's 100-meter hurdles only to clip the penultimate hurdle and go tumbling to the track.
"It's a very difficult event," said Robles, who is Cuban. "You have to go so fast and before you realize it, the hurdle is in front of you; and before you realize it, you can be on the ground."
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Yeah he was pretty convincing.
Looked a bit like urcle too.
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