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SHOOTING at the OLYMPICS
A trigger-happy American , big surprise there
Hopefully the United Nations will move forward with its resolution this week. . . . . . . LONDON (AP) — Kim Rhode won the gold medal in women's skeet shooting Sunday, making her the first American to take an individual-sport medal in five consecutive Olympics. Rhode tied the world record and set an Olympic record with 99 points. Wei Ning of China took silver with 91 points and Danka Bartekova of Slovakia got bronze by beating Marina Belikova of Russia in a shootout after they tied with 90 points. Rhode won a gold medal in double trap at Atlanta as a teenager in 1996, took bronze in that event four years later at Sydney, re-claimed the gold at Athens in 2004 and won the silver in skeet at Beijing in 2008. In qualifying, Rhode set another Olympic record, missing only one of her 75 shots. Rhode led by four points entering the final, and the way she was connecting Sunday, there was no way she was getting caught. Last edited by baronWastelan; 07-29-2012 at 04:25 PM. |
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ehh, I read the tit bit from google on this and it seems Fins make the best shooters. Doubt there will be many British shooters as you need expressed permission from the home office to have a rifle.
This guy should have entered: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_H%C3%A4yh%C3%A4 |
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Great Britain's Peter Wilson just won Olympic Gold for the Mens double trap competition. He is also the current World record holder by a country mile, "Blowing away" the competition (lol) in Tucson, Arizona at the World Championships this year. GB has always had great shooters. Finns are Ok, but the Swedes, Italians and Russians are better. The Russians blow the US away in World Championship records, but the US have a higher Olympic haul. Still, when you calculate "per capita" awesomeness (to the OP), the US are nowhere near the best shooters. That would be the Swedes as far as Olympics are concerned. Fact. Just thought I'd at least attempt to get back to the original subject matter, before everyone started talking drivel. Just read about the 7 (to date) killed at a Sikh Temple Massacre by some US gun nutter though; probably some web footed, banjo duelling red neck who thought they were "Muzzies" (as if that's an excuse), and he was protecting "Freedom". A police officer he shot several times is also critically injured, and may not survive. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-19138754 Never met a Sikh person I didn't like btw, usually lovely people who keep themselves to themselves. Last edited by RCAF_FB_Orville; 08-06-2012 at 10:02 AM. Reason: spelling |
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You can also be completely "sane" and integrated into a community and still murder e.g. Dr Harold Shipman. I once had an interesting jurisprudence argument with the hypothesis being that it is impossible to murder. The raionale was that to murder someone was so far removed form normal sciety that the killer had to be insane, therefore it could not be murder. Hood ps the P51 footage was underwhelming I thought. I thought it'd be louder though maybe the noise was turned down. |
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Free men are armed, slaves need permission.
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Makes perferct sense, though you may want to try not to **** up your banks leading the world into financial chaos |
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Two films to watch that I recommend The Last Days of Lehman Brothers and Inside Job
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