LONDON (Reuters) - China's Lu Xiaojun broke two weightlifting world records on his way to winning gold and team mate Lu Haojie went through the pain barrier to take silver as their men's squad bounced back from a poor start to the Olympics.
For the second consecutive day a Chinese lifter won gold by a comfortable margin, restoring the swagger to a team that surprisingly lost out on titles to North Koreans in the first two weightlifting events of the London Games.
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