[Asian Games] Judo Lee Ha-rim, Who Lost to Yang Yong-wei for the Fourth Time in a Row, Said One Short Word Instead of a Comment, "Evil!"
Lee Ha-rim, who vowed revenge on Yang Yong-wei... Disappointing half loss in the finals
Korean judo men's 60kg athletes had no particular connection to the Asian Games.
At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Choi Min-ho won a gold medal in his weight class, but he repeatedly fell short of winning the Asian Games.
The last time the national team won a gold medal in the men's 60kg judo class at the Asian Games was with Kim Hyuk at the 1994 Hiroshima Games. 카지노사이트킹
At the 1998 Bangkok Games, bronze medals (Hyun Seung-hoon), at the 2002 Busan Games and the 2006 Qatar Games, Choi Min-ho and Cho Nam-seok had to be satisfied with bronze and silver medals, at the 2010 Guangzhou Games (Choi Min-ho, bronze medal), and at the 2014 Incheon Games (Kim Won-jin, bronze medals) also failed to bring home a gold medal.
That's why the growth of Lee Ha-rim (Korea Racing Association), Korea's lightweight champion, was all the more meaningful.
Lee Ha-rim, the bronze medalist at the 2018 Jakarta-Palembang Asian Games, has shown remarkable growth recently and was considered a candidate to win the Asian Games gold medal for the first time in 29 years.
Lee Ha-rim, who swept medals at every international competition she participated in, including winning a bronze medal at the World Championships last May, rose to No. 1 in the International Judo Federation (IJF) world rankings last July and was selected as a promising star for the Paris Olympics, surpassing Hangzhou.
As Japan's Naohisa Takano, winner of the men's 60kg class at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, did not participate in the Hangzhou Asian Games, Lee Ha-rim's expectations of winning the Asian Games were dashed.
However, there was a wall that Lee Ha-rim had to overcome in order to resolve 29 years of resentment.
It was Taiwan's Yang Yong-wei, one of the strong players in that weight class.
Yang Yong-wei is the star of Taiwan's judo team who won a silver medal at the Tokyo Olympics, and Ha-rim Lee had lost all three of her matches to him before this tournament.
He lost at the 2019 Tashkent Grand Prix, the 2019 Osaka Grand Slam, and the 2021 Doha Masters.
Lee Ha-rim had many things in common.
Ahead of the Hangzhou Asian Games, he pointed out his 'natural enemy' Yang Yongwei and expressed his determination, saying, "I will beat him and win the gold medal."
He went through a difficult process before meeting Yang Yongwei.
Lee Ha-rim won a total of 8 points, including 4 minutes and 54 seconds in overtime (golden score), in the semifinals against Samsadin Magjan (Kazakhstan) in the men's 66kg weight class semifinals in judo at the Hangzhou Asian Games held at the Xiaoshan Linfu Gymnasium in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China, on the 24th. After a close battle that lasted 54 minutes, he barely won with a single throw.
Perhaps because of the difficult match, Lee Ha-rim's stamina was noticeably depleted.
This wasn't the only thing.
During the game, his lip was torn and bleeding due to rough play by an opponent.
Lee Ha-rim could not overcome the limit in the end.
Lee Ha-rim, who gritted his teeth and entered the final against Yang Yong-wei, gave up half of his throws with 30 seconds left in regular time and was unable to turn the game around.
Lee Ha-rim passed through the joint reporting area (mixed zone), remaining silent when asked questions from reporters.
Instead, he expressed his disappointment by making the sound "Ah" twice.
Although she failed to surpass Yang Yongwei in this competition, Lee Ha-rim's challenge is not over.
He is aiming for revenge again at the 2024 Paris Olympics held next year.