At the Beijing Olympics in 2008, the hurdler Liu Xiang withdrew injured from the first heat. On August 7, 2012, at the London Olympics, he fell at the first hurdle of his 110 meters heat. He hopped on one foot to the end of the track and kissed the last hurdle.
Sina wrote that television viewers around the world saw “the moving scene of him hopping the whole track on one leg and kissing the hurdle goodbye.”