The country emerged from exile to capture six gold medals, five silvers and two bronzes.
HANGZHOU: The superheavyweight giants wrap up the Asian Games weightlifting today but it was the North Koreans’ stunning return after four years that raised eyebrows in Hangzhou.
North Korea proclaimed themselves “world leaders” in the sport, after not being seen in competition since December 2019. Jang Song-nam, manager of the North Korean weightlifting team, said the success was “payback” for their sacrifices over years of Covid isolation.“Every gold medal is payback for our hardship over four years. We are world leaders now. We wanted to show our strength, and we did it.”
Australian coach Paul Coffa reportedly said that their participation in Havana would be “a catastrophe for weightlifting”.The executive board of the IWF, the sport’s governing body, in July changed its rules. But it said all North Korean weightlifters had been subjected to at least one doping control in Hangzhou and two had been barred for failing to submit whereabouts reports for the past three months.
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