...Okay. okay. Perhaps calling the best weightlifting athletes in the world hippos isn't very nice, but these women were huge. They actually didn't much look like women to begin with. They had tree trunk legs and a cushion of fat underneath their chins. BUT, holy macaroni, can they lift weights!
I went to the International Weightlifting Championship in a city called Goyang over the weekend (about 1.5 hours from me home). It was lots of fun. I got to sit in the VIP section because I was with a white guy, so the organizers thought he was involved somehow with the other athletes, probably a family member or something. So as other Koreans, young and old, had to sit on the crowded steps, I was comfy in my chair. Lol.
The leading South Korean weightlifter won gold in the end, lifting 187 kilos over her pudgy head. The crowd went crazy. I got a little excited too and splashed my soju spiked green tea out of my hand onto an organizer's foot. I like alcohol and sports.
GO SPORTS!
This tiny Russian girl came in second, lifting like 140 kilos or something. She was like only 100 pounds heavier than me. Absolutely tiny. She was breaking world records left and right. And then China came third.
Then, me and some other English teachers and native Koreans went to Hongdae (Seoul, I believe) into a bar that had a military theme to it. They served pints in latrine type metal cups. It was odd. But I drank.
It was a good weekend.
