Yao Ming – will the big fella be around for the 2012 Olympics in London?

Yao Ming and the Chinese team were eliminated in the Olympics by Lithuania. It was a quiet exit for the super tall super star. Not quite what the Chinese were envisioning.

Now it looks like Yao may be done as a Chinese National basketball star.

“That is four years away,” Yao said later. “In 2004, I thought that 2008 was far away. Now I look at 2012 (the next Games in London) and maybe it doesn’t look so far. But since 2004, I have had three major surgeries.”
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Don’t get me wrong, China had a great Olympics all around, but Yao was a disappointment.

There were two Chinese athletes that China was really counting on. Yao and Lui Xiang the former world record holding hurdler.

Lui had to remove himself with leg problems that had started months ago.

Much of the Chinese advertising effort was based on Lui Xiang first and then Yao Ming.

Now you have to wonder if either one of them will be in the London Olympics in 2012.

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