Lu double makes up for Beijing disappointment
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August 3, 2012, Friday
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THE only weightlifting gold medal that China failed to win in the Beijing Olympics was in the men's 77-kilogram category, so they sent two men named Lu to London to make sure that didn't happen again.
One would have been enough.
Lu Xiaojun smashed two world records on Wednesday in the most emphatic victory yet in the weightlifting competition.
Lu Haojie may have been a distant second, but he was still 11 kilograms ahead of bronze medalist Ivan Cambar Rodriguez of Cuba.
"As long as the gold is to China, it's OK," Lu Haojie said.
The man who denied China its ninth gold medal in nine attempts in Beijing, Sa Jae-hyouk of South Korea, was injured in the snatch as his right arm buckled at the elbow. He abandoned the competition and was taken to a hospital for a checkup.
Meanwhile, the Chinese duel for gold turned into a one-man show as Lu Xiaojun lifted 175 kilogram in the snatch, bettering his own world record by 1 kilo. The 28-year-old then took 204 kilograms in the second half of the competition, the clean and jerk, to finish with a total of 379 kilograms, also a world top mark.
Afterward, Lu Xiaojun talked more about his seven years younger countryman than himself.
"He's been doing so much progress it's incredible," he said, noting that Lu Haojie beat him at the Chinese national championships this year.
The younger Lu confirmed that the reason China entered two competitors in the 77-kilogram class was to get the gold medal back from Sa. China was allowed to enter the maximum of 10 lifters in 15 weight categories.
"China dispatched Lu Xiaojun and myself because in 2008 Beijing Olympics we lost the gold to a South Korean athlete," he said. "So this time is our revenge. We wanted the gold and silver medals in the 2012 London Olympics."
It was the fourth weightlifting gold in London for China. North Korea has three after Rim Jong Sim clinched the gold in the women's 69-kilogram class earlier on Wednesday.
The 19-year-old finished with a total weight of 261 kilograms.
One would have been enough.
Lu Xiaojun smashed two world records on Wednesday in the most emphatic victory yet in the weightlifting competition.
Lu Haojie may have been a distant second, but he was still 11 kilograms ahead of bronze medalist Ivan Cambar Rodriguez of Cuba.
"As long as the gold is to China, it's OK," Lu Haojie said.
The man who denied China its ninth gold medal in nine attempts in Beijing, Sa Jae-hyouk of South Korea, was injured in the snatch as his right arm buckled at the elbow. He abandoned the competition and was taken to a hospital for a checkup.
Meanwhile, the Chinese duel for gold turned into a one-man show as Lu Xiaojun lifted 175 kilogram in the snatch, bettering his own world record by 1 kilo. The 28-year-old then took 204 kilograms in the second half of the competition, the clean and jerk, to finish with a total of 379 kilograms, also a world top mark.
Afterward, Lu Xiaojun talked more about his seven years younger countryman than himself.
"He's been doing so much progress it's incredible," he said, noting that Lu Haojie beat him at the Chinese national championships this year.
The younger Lu confirmed that the reason China entered two competitors in the 77-kilogram class was to get the gold medal back from Sa. China was allowed to enter the maximum of 10 lifters in 15 weight categories.
"China dispatched Lu Xiaojun and myself because in 2008 Beijing Olympics we lost the gold to a South Korean athlete," he said. "So this time is our revenge. We wanted the gold and silver medals in the 2012 London Olympics."
It was the fourth weightlifting gold in London for China. North Korea has three after Rim Jong Sim clinched the gold in the women's 69-kilogram class earlier on Wednesday.
The 19-year-old finished with a total weight of 261 kilograms.
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