As you can see from the video above, Liu Xiang ran an unbelievably close race at the Shanghai Golden Phoenix Grand Prix. 13 months after his heartbreaking withdrawal from competition at the Olympics in Beijing for an injured Achilles tendon, China’s star hurdler is back in fine, fine form. With a time of 13.15 seconds in the 110 meter hurdles, he was behind winner Ryan Brathwaite of Barbados by just .01 second.