With a loud bang, Thrasher scored 208.0 in the 10-meter air rifle competition, Saturday August 6, 2016, earning her a gold medal on the spot.
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In the air rifle competition, shooters use pellets with a flat fronts that leave clean holes in the paper target that determines scoring.
Thrasher says she wanted to be an Olympic figure skater when she was younger, but became enamored with shooting while joining her grandfather, father, and two older brothers on a hunting trip.
“This is beyond my wildest dreams”, she said.
The conclusion of the men’s 10m air rifle final at the Olympic Shooting Centre due at around 16.00.
Thrasher pulled it off against two of the world’s best rifle shooters, Li and Yi Siling.
In his weekly address, President Obama boasted about the diversity that brings together the United States, just as that diversity was on full display at Friday’s opening ceremony at the 2016 Olympic games in Rio, meshed together with a slew of culture that athletes from across the world brought to the stage along with their athletic prowess. Rugby sevens, the fast-pace, condensed form of the game, is the format for the sport’s return to the Olympic program for the first time since 1924, when the US men won gold in the 15-a-side tournament.
The 19-year-old US college champion edged out China’s Du Li, gold in Athens in 2004, with an Olympic-record score of 208 in the sport’s new finals format.
“I was just trying to shoot the best I could for my first Olympics experience coming without any medal”. But when the number reached 292 for this Olympics, the Americans had a record.
Thrasher also participated in the 2016 ISSF Munich World Cup, where she finished fourth in the 50m three position and seventh in the 10m air.
Women’s sabre medals begin with the bronze bout is set for 5:15 p.m. and the gold for 5:45 p.m. Russia’s Sofya Velikaya and Ukraine’s Olga Kharlan are among those to watch.
“I heard the cheers and the horns and it was very disturbing”, Yi said. Majilinda Kelmendi won gold in women’s judo 52kg.
With U.S. swimmer Michael Phelps claiming a record-extending 19th Olympic gold medal on Sunday as he kicked off his quest for more titles and Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt preparing for an unprecedented third straight 100 metres victory, the Games were now hitting their stride.
Clare Balding takes over at 7pm with coverage of the men’s artistic gymnastics team final at the Rio Olympic Arena, where the likes of China, Japan and Great Britain are expected to excel.
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Women’s soccer has enjoyed far more success than the men’s game in the United States. “What they’ve done for women’s sports, to me, is just incredible”.
