Posted: Friday July 25, 2008 11:11AM;
By Michael Farber

Traditionally, the most spectacular sound in sports is the utter silence of 80,000 people in a stadium the instant before the gun goes at the men's Olympic 100-meter final. There will be, however, a small modification for the 2008 Olympics.

In Beijing, the library quiet will be most profound before the start of the 110-meter hurdles, a race that has temporarily has supplanted the 100 as the centerpiece of what -- despite track and field's doping scandals -- remains the backbone of the Games: Liu Xiang races Dayron Robles