World Athletics Championships - Robles stripped of gold in hurdles drama

Cuban Dayron Robles was stripped of his gold medal after barging past China's Liu Xiang to win the 110 metres hurdles final at the World Championships.

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[xianyu3211]

fuck you robles, liu xiang kick your fucking ass

[DrGusbo]

In 2:50 he tries to grab Liu's hand nad fail, then he tries again in next hurdle. Robles deserves to be stripped. I'm very disappoined with his actuation.

I'm not xinese, but xina deserves this gold, Liu is the king of 110 hurdles.

[RoStGePe]

Both their hands do the same movement at hurdle 9 and as a former hurdler I totally understand that accidents like this do happen, and besides the first hit caused Robles to drift closer to Xiang...I'm not a major fan of any one of these hurdlers but I can't imagine Robles doing that on purpose, I could be wrong, but again I don't believe it was intentional

[agustingtkr]

@xianyu3211 do you think dayron read this???  HAHA

[hullohulloRFC]

plitter platter

[iamraymondip]

Shames to Robles, the worst thing is to cheat yourself that you were the champion.

[yuan3828]

Robles grabbed Liu's hand like a pussy....Liu should of deserve a silver or gold in this race...

[runio4]

good the gold was stripped from Robles. i didn't think it was deliberate but upon watching it again, it seems pretty much so

[linyusemail]

What Robles did, does not belongs to Olympic spirit. Liu will beat him again in London.

[tuktukpsh]

@lembo815 Actually, his movement is not so gradual, around the 8th hurdle he moves to the right side of the track quite suddenly, and before the last hurdle he does it again (if you see, after the last hurdle he touches Liu even if he is not fully opening his arm, because he is already far to the right of the track).