2024 Olympics - The Shooting Sports
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Everybody realized that meme is fake, right?
The pictured Turkish shooter and his teammate earned the silver in the Mixed Team Air Pistol event. The text below the picture is 100% fantasy.
How about the mens Skeet! Americans win gold and silver. Vincent Hancock - four golds in a row!!!
Men's Skeet
USA for the gold and silver. Chinese Taipei takes bronze. I'll leave it to others to explain the political divisions that create odd team names.
USA for the gold and silver. Chinese Taipei takes bronze. I'll leave it to others to explain the political divisions that create odd team names.
Oh, yeah. Our shotgun teams are something else when it comes to longevity/performance over multiple Games.
Women's 25M Pistol
South Korea takes Gold. France earns Silver. Hungary takes Bronze.
This event is usually referred to as Women's Sport Pistol. There's a non-Olympic, centerfire version for men. It's usually shot with .38 revolvers although there are plenty of options.
The men's event, along with Free Pistol, are probably my two favorite ISSF shooting sports. It's too bad the Olympics no longer includes either.
I could also pine away for the loss of 300 meter 3 position rifle, the sport where household names (if you're a shooting household, anyway) Lones Wigger and Gary Anderson earned their reputation. That event has been gone since 1972, though, so I should stop mourning its passing.
South Korea takes Gold. France earns Silver. Hungary takes Bronze.
This event is usually referred to as Women's Sport Pistol. There's a non-Olympic, centerfire version for men. It's usually shot with .38 revolvers although there are plenty of options.
The men's event, along with Free Pistol, are probably my two favorite ISSF shooting sports. It's too bad the Olympics no longer includes either.
I could also pine away for the loss of 300 meter 3 position rifle, the sport where household names (if you're a shooting household, anyway) Lones Wigger and Gary Anderson earned their reputation. That event has been gone since 1972, though, so I should stop mourning its passing.
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I never understood how y'all could even attempt that sport. Way beyond anything I could ever do.
I mean, skeeters are darned near impossible to see farther away than a couple of yards...
I had the pleasure of shooting with Kim Rhode on a few occasions as we were members of the same gun club back in So Cal. She made it look so easy......
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They didn't let her bear the flag at her last Olympics. Even news outlets that hate guns took note that an Olympian who earned at least one medal in that many consecutive Olympic games deserved to carry our flag. I'm still pissed about that and I've only met her once.I had the pleasure of shooting with Kim Rhode on a few occasions as we were members of the same gun club back in So Cal. She made it look so easy......
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It’s a wrap for the shooting events at the 2024 Paris Olympics and the world saw phenomenal shooting with five new Olympic records set in 14 different medal events and 42 medals up for grabs. China showed they are currently the ones to beat winning the most shooting medals in Paris with 10 including five gold, two silver and three bronze. The USA (one gold, three silver, one bronze) and Korea (two gold, three silver) were next with five medals each and Italy followed suit with four medals (one gold, two silver, one bronze). India, Switzerland and Guatemala each joined the countries earning more than one medal with two apiece.
The shooting events at the Summer Olympics just concluded, but you can still celebrate in the action by watching all of the shooting action on NBC Olympics Shooting Hub.
It’s a wrap for the shooting events at the 2024 Paris Olympics and the world saw phenomenal shooting with five new Olympic records set in 14 different medal events and 42 medals up for grabs. China showed they are currently the ones to beat winning the most shooting medals in Paris with 10 including five gold, two silver and three bronze. The USA (one gold, three silver, one bronze) and Korea (two gold, three silver) were next with five medals each and Italy followed suit with four medals (one gold, two silver, one bronze). India, Switzerland and Guatemala each joined the countries earning more than one medal with two apiece.
The shooting events at the Summer Olympics just concluded, but you can still celebrate in the action by watching all of the shooting action on NBC Olympics Shooting Hub.
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They're not quite done. I usually try to include coverage of the Modern Pentathlon. Irritatingly, they're trying to de-emphasize the shooting so much that the pistol event is now called the "Laser Run." Anyway, it won't conclude until this coming Sunday.
That's a great link to the full-length video coverage, i.e. television coverage for shooting nerds. However, folks have to be able to sign in using the credentials from their cable provider or from Peacock+; that will be a stumbling block for some.
