Gold medalist, North Korea's Kim Il Gyong reacts during the medal ceremony of the Women's 59kg Group A. HANGZHOU, China: North Korea's weightlifters once again crushed the opposition at the Hangzhou Asian Games on Monday with another world record and two more golds, triggering admiration and astonishment from some of their competitors.
"We have very good training facilities and we put in a lot of hard work,” Kim said when asked how her team had done so well, after a medals ceremony in which she cried during the national anthem.Kuo, 29, said of the world record set on Saturday by Ri Song Gum:"The 49kg, I actually came to watch that day and when I saw it, I said it was just too scary.
"We have not competed internationally for four years," said Kim's teammate Rim Un Sim, who won North Korea's other gold on Monday in the women's 64kg and set an Asian Games record.Kim had given an early indication that she was serious about winning gold by opting to make her first lift in the snatch at 103kg, a weight so high that only one of her rivals, China's Luo Shifang, was still in contention after passing that weight.
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