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Beijing Olympic Games 2008
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Maria Grozdeva didn't get her third gold medal this time. She went into the final in 5th place on 583 and stayed there.
The leader going into the final was the Mongolian Gundeqmaa Otryad with an equal Olympic record of 590 followed by Munkhbayar Dorjsuren of Germany on 587 and Chen Ying of China on 585.
Positions moved about in the top three during the final with the eventual winnner; Chen Ying scoring a massive 208.4 to set a new final Olympic record of 793.4. Both Otryad and Dorjsuren scored 202.2, giving them second and third places respectively. Overcoming a 5 point deficit to win was a remarkable feat, she scored: 10.2, 10.3, 10.8, 10.7, 10.5, 10.5, 10.7, 10.4, 10.8, 10.7, 9.9, 10.3, 10.8, 10.8, 10.7, 10.5, 10.0, 9.2, 10.3, 10.3.
Just from those photos and the coverage of the 50m pistol, it appears that the pistol range is largely if not completely indoors.
Scores were very spread out going into the final. First was 590 and eighth place was 582. Lowest score in qualifying was 558.
When we ran this event in Rathdrum, the highest score on the day was 527. I'm not suggesting that Alan Kelly wear drag and enter the Olympics, but just putting today's scores in the perspective of what we're achieving here.
The final will be shown again on BBC stream 5 at 09:30 this morning and also at 00:30 tomorrow on stream 4.0 -
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I was trying to do a bit of pistol identification from the stream on the eu broadcasting website.
So far I can say that 2nd and 3rd places were Walther SSP's, the first time I've actually seen these being used in an international.
Dammit anyway. Now I'll have to buy one
. Why couldn't they be €400 cheaper like the pardini? Man, this GAS will have me killed 
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You should thank rrpc as he posted the link. I'm having a little go at him about the necessity of using the evil Micro**** browser. It doesn't work with Firefox:(
Not my fault
I didn't design the website. You can go off with your tinfoil hat and make your statement against the mighty Microsoft whilst the rest of us watch the nice videos. 0 -
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Fair play Valter for staying up for this
Du Li from China was the winner with a 589 and 101.3 to set a new final olympic record of 690.3. Emmons followed with 586 and 101.7 to give 687.7 and Eglis Yaima Cruz from Cuba was third with 588 and 99.6 giving 687.6, a mere 0.1 behind Katerina Emmons.
Nobody broke the 590 mark which probably made it a bit easier for Emmons who hasn't broken that mark yet in her career, but considering her qualifying score for the Olympics was 582, there certainly was an improvement for her. Hubby has obviously been helping with the setup
Sonia Pfeilschifter must have had an absolute nightmare in qualifying, only scoring 578. As the holder of the world record of 594 set in 2006, this can only have been a complete meltdown. Terribly disappointing for her.
The final was very tight, these are the final placings and scores:
Name|Country|Qualifying|Final Score|Total
Du Li|China|589|101.3|690.3
Katerina Emmons|Czech Rep.|586|101.7|687.7
Eglis Yaima Cruz|Cuba|588|99.6|687.6
Lioubov Galkina|Russia|585|102.4|687.4
Jamie Beyerle|USA|586|100.9|686.9
Olga Dovgun|Kazakhstan|588|98.3|686.3
Lidija Mihajlovic|Serbia|586|100.0|686.0
Wu Liuxi|China|585|100.9|685.9
Barbara Lechner of Germany was 9th with a 582. I always feel sympathy for 9th place because it's one I'm familiar with.
The official site has three photos of Du Li shooting. two of them appear to be from the air rifle final, I'm not sure if the one above is actually from the final because they obviously rushed to get any photo up as quickly as possible
From the above it looks like she's using Eley Tenex.0 -
Just watched the highlights of the final on the EBU site. Emmons uses the short barrelled Anschutz 2013 (stainless barrel and long extension) as does Jamie Beyerle of the USA, Beyerle's extension tube is very long indeed. It was also funny to see one of the competitors using the lid of an Eley Match box as a side blinder taped on with scotch tape
No airs and graces in this sport
Emmons came from sixth to take second whereas Cruz dropped to third from second. In fact Emmons was fourth after the 9th shot and took the silver with her last shot.
Emmons has the rifle completely upright, no cant whatsoever in either the rifle or the sights. She really arches her back to get this to work, but it obviously does work for her. Du Li also seems to be very upright, though I didn't have a reference to check against (with Emmons I could compare her rifle with her stativ).
The finals hall is completely indoors. The Chinese are really going all out to make sure there's lots of new records.0 -
From the Games website:Shooting Day 6 Review: Women shooters set final Olympic records, claim gold
(L-R) Katerina Emmons, Du Li and Eglys Cruz. (Photo credit: Xinhua)
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(BEIJING, August 14) -- Du Li of China and Chiara Cainero of Italy set final Olympic records at the Beijing Shooting Range on Thursday, the final day of the Women's Shooting events.
Du Li set an Olympic final mark of 690.3 points in winning the Women's 50m Rifle Three Positions competition, despite getting off to a bad start with an 8.7 first shot.
She is the 11th athlete and the third woman to win two separate Olympic Shooting events, having also won the 10m Air Rifle at Athens 2004. Renata Mauer-Rozanska of Ploland was the last athlete to achieve this at Sydney 2000.
Katerina Emmons of the Czech Republic, who had upstaged Du in claiming the first gold of the Beijing Games in the 10m Air Rifle, took the silver medal with a final tally of 687.7, while Eglis Yaima Cruz of Cuba won bronze with a score of 687.6.
The defending Athens champion, Russian Lioubov Galkina, finished fourth with 687.4 points.
Germany's Sonja Pfeilschifter, ranked No. 1 in the world, finished 17th in the qualification and failed to make it into the final.
In the Women's Skeet final, held amidst a downpour, the crowd watched three separate shoot-offs in the final for the medal and fourth places.
Despite challenges posed by the weather, three shooters tied for first place, with Chiara Cainero of Italy, Kimberly Rhode of the United States and Christine Brinker of Germany all setting a final Olympic record with 93 hits.
Cainero won the shoot-off to take her first Olympic gold in this event.
Rhode, a two-time Olympic gold medalist in Double Trap, claimed the silver, winning the shoot-off (+2/2) over Brinker (+1/2). The bronze was Brinker's first Olympic medal.
Sutiya Jiewchaloemmit of Thailand, at 22, the youngest finalist, finished fifth, while Wei Ning of China, the Athens 2004 silver medalist, finished sixth with 91 hits.
Event favorites Svetlana Demina of Russia and Diana Igaly of Hungary (defending gold medalist) finished 12th and 13th, respectively.0 -
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Some probably remember that last time round, Matt Emmons competed with a rifle that wasn't his own because someone took a screwdriver to the chamber of his anschutz a few weeks before the games. It seems that that kind of disgraceful and shameful conduct hasn't gone away. From the Telegraph:Beijing Olympics: Cheating accusation from Indian shooter Abhinav Bindra
The Beijing Olympics has been hit by a fresh 'cheating' row after India's gold-medal winning shooter said that his gunsight had been tampered with before the final round of his event.
By Peter Foster in Beijing
Last Updated: 11:18AM BST 14 Aug 2008
Abhinav Bindra of India during his medal winning performance in the Men's 10m Air Rifle shooting Photo: AFP / GETTY
Abhinav Bindra, who became the first Indian to win an individual Olympic Gold earlier this week, said he had discovered the alteration as he practiced before the final of the 10m Air Rifle event which he went on to win.
Competitors are given three minutes of 'sighter' shots to zero in their sights before the competition officially begins and it was at this point that Bindhra, 25, discovered that someone had moved his rear sight.
Dr Amit Bhattacharjee, Abhinav's personal mental trainer said: "When Abhinav fired the first shot in the sighting time (practice time), it hit the target between the fourth and fifth rings.
"It is unthinkable of any shooter competing at this level to score 4.5 points. But he remained calm and corrected the angle (of his sight) and the end result is in front of you."
The Indian team authorities said that no official complaint had been made about the incident, since it is acknowledged to be the responsibility of the shooter to take proper care of his rifle.
Baljit Singh Sethi, India's deputy Chef-the-Mission who is also the secretary general of the National Rifle Association of India, said.
"Actually, you cannot blame anyone for it's your duty to take care of your gun. He was the only Indian to qualify, so there were shooters only from other countries in that room."
Bindra has recalled going to the toilet at the same time his German coach Gabriela Buehlmann went out for a cigarette, leaving the gun unattended. It was at this moment that the Indians suspect the rifle was tampered with.
The allegations of cheating come a day after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) was forced to answer allegations in the US media that three of China's gold-medal winning gymnastics team were underage.
According to Olympic regulations gymnasts must turn 16 by the end of an Olympic year, but several reports in the Chinese media appeared to refer three of the Chinese gymnasts as 13 and 14 as recently as a year ago.
Doubts have been cast over the ages of He Kexin, Jiang Yuyuan, and Yang Yilin who look considerably younger than their counterparts. Age is considered an advantage in gymnastics because younger girls are more flexible than older ones.
The victorious gymnasts who beat the USA to win team gold, were subjected to hostile questioning at their victory press conference, with journalists demanding to know if those under suspicion could 'remember their 15th birthdays'.
The IOC said that passports and other documentation provided by the Chinese authorities during the registration process 'proved' the athletes were old enough to compete, but suspicions continue to linger.0 -
I was trying to do a bit of pistol identification from the stream on the eu broadcasting website.
So far I can say that 2nd and 3rd places were Walther SSP's, the first time I've actually seen these being used in an international. The other Chinese lady was using a Pardini as was the Thai competitor.
I still can't figure out what Chen Ying was using. It's certainly a grip loader and could be one of the older Hammerli's (a 208 or 215) or possibly an older Feinwekbau.
The others weren't visible on the stream so I've no idea what they were although there was a Morini CM22M used as a demonstration at the start of the broadcast.
From a thread on this on Target Talk, it seems that Ying was using a chinese pistol that we don't see too much outside of China and which dates to the 1980s (Like Martinov in prone, sometimes the equipment that's best for the shooter isn't the equipment that's best for the pockets of the manufacturers!). It's their .22 take on the IZH series I'd guess - state manufactured explicitly for the purpose of the Games.
Also it seems that Otyrad has moved from an FWB AW93 over to the SSP only recently.0 -
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50m Prone Final
Ukraine's Artur Ayvazian took the Gold in the 50m Prone Final with a score of 702.7 (qual 599).
Matt Emmons got the Silver with a 701.7 (qual 597).
Warren Potent of Australia finished with the Bronze medal with a score of 700.5 (qual 595).
Here's the shot by shot scores for the first three (from the Games website). http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/INF/SH/C74A/SHM103101.shtml#SHM103101
1 1736 AYVAZIAN Artur
Ukraine 100 100 100 100 100 99 599 Final shots: 10.4 10.6 10.2 10.6 10.2 10.4 10.8 10.0 10.2 10.3 103.7 702.7
2 1760 EMMONS Matthew
United States 99 100 98 100 100 100 597 Final shots: 10.0 10.8 10.6 9.8 10.8 10.8 10.7 10.4 10.4 10.4 104.7 701.7
3 1028 POTENT Warren
Australia 99 99 99 99 99 100 595 Final shots: 10.3 10.6 10.6 10.3 10.4 10.7 10.5 10.8 10.6 10.7 105.5 700.5 0 -
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Well done Artur, Matt and Warren! I think Warren Potent is 48 years old, so who says you have to be young to win an Olympic medal.
Emmons is obviously on form, the prone rifle would be his second best event, he's usually better at 3P, in any case he's matched one of his wife's medals, all he has to do is get gold on Sunday
There were some really big names in that match:
Berg was 4th, Prikhodtchenko was 5th, Sauveplane 6th, Hirvi 7th and Martynov was 8th.
Other notables: Mchael Anti was 9th, Guy Starik 12th, Artem Khadjibekov 13th, Marco de Nicolo 15th, Jozef Gonci 16th, Rajmond Debevec 21st, Maik Eckhardt 24th, our friend Miroslav Varga was 29th and Marcel Buerge was 32nd.
All those scored 590 and above.
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First time I've heard of this happening in shooting:
BEIJING (AP) A North Korean shooter was stripped of his two medals and expelled from the Beijing Olympics along with a Vietnamese gymnast Friday after failing doping tests.
They are the second and third athletes caught doping in Beijing, where the IOC is conducting a record 4,500 drug tests.
The International Olympic Committee said shooter KIM Jong Su tested positive for propanolol after winning the silver medal in the 50-meter pistol and bronze in the 10-meter air pistol.
Propanolol is a banned betablocker, which can be used to prevent trembling in events such as shooting and archery. The bronze medal in the 10-meter event now goes to American shooter Jason Turner. In the 50-meter event, China's TAN Zongliang moves up to the silver and Russia's Vladimir Isakov is upgraded to the bronze.
IOC medical commission chairman Arne Ljungqvist said he considered Kim guilty of "a deliberate intake" of a banned substance because of propanolol's specific benefit for shooters. Kim could face a ban of up to two years from the international shooting federation.
IOC spokeswoman Giselle Davies said both athletes were kicked out of the games and had their accreditations revoked. Spanish cyclist Maria Isabel Moreno was kicked out of the games Monday after testing positive for EPO in a pre-competition check.
Good for Jason Turner and Vladimir Isakov. Just a pity that they didn't get the medal ceremony. Jason Turner had a shoot off in the Air Pistol for 4th place (sometimes referred to as the 'potato medal'). I'll bet he's glad now that he took it seriously!
And I'll bet Oleg Omelchuk is sorry he didn't! He also had a shoot off with Isakov and Isakov had a 9.1, Omelchuk had a 6.5!
Oops
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I don't think I've ever heard of that happening before, not to a medal-holder anyway. You hear odd cases here and there where people are hauled up for doping, but the only case I've heard of recently where the drug was a betablocker (the only drug for which an exception will not be granted in shooting) was an australian who'd been prescribed them for a heart condition.
Between this and Bindhra's sights being tampered with, it's a departure from the high standards we're used to
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