**MEDAL COUNT**

Virginia native Ginny Thrasher, 19, shoots her way to first U.S. gold medal in Rio

August 6 at 10:17 AM

Thrasher, a Springfield, Va., native who first fired a gun five years ago when she felled a whitetail deer while hunting with her grandfather, was one of eight competitors to emerge from the 50-woman qualification round this morning. She began her finals bid with a stunning bullseye that yielded a perfect score of 10.9, eventually outlasting Serbia’s top-ranked Andrea Arsovic and China’s defending Olympic champion Siling Yi.


The final duel came down to Thrasher and Li Du, China’s 34-year-old who won gold medals in the 2004 and 2008 Olympics. Thrasher, well, thrashed her veteran opponent by a full point, a wide margin in perhaps the Games’ most precise sport.
Earlier this year, Thrasher became the only freshman ever to sweep both NCAA individual air rifle titles while helping West Virginia capture its fourth-straight national title.
Sarah Scherer, Thrasher’s 25-year-old teammate, finished eighth among the event’s 50 competitors. Competing in her final Games, Scherer sat out for much of the last two years after undergoing two major back surgeries to repair herniated discs.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2016/08/06/virginia-native-ginny-thrasher-19-shoots-her-way-to-first-u-s-gold-medal-in-rio/ 

Ok, she's a 'WHIZ-KID' and quite the dead-eye-dick with a scope; but that contraption that they've taken her photo with ...   WTH 

nicko wrote:
Same with the Archery Bows,   they look like something out of a Sci-Fi film.

Should all use the old English Long bow.

WhoseYourWolfie wrote:

AND maybe classes for Recurves, and American Flat bows, as well...

And, make it all "bare bow" at the same time --  that means no sights, stabilisers, rangefinders, and the likes..

INDEED ...why do we have to keep moving the skill set forward with all of the technology   

nicko wrote:Same with the Archery Bows,   they look like something out of a Sci-Fi film.


Should all use the old English Long bow.

4EVER2 wrote:Great day for watching the games: bicycle race - men's swimming - men's beach volley ball - women's team volley ball ...yipper, and it's raining here in the heart land!

Jules wrote:The  PARA'S

Jules wrote:
The  PARA'S

Ben Reilly wrote:

nicko wrote:Same with the Archery Bows,   they look like something out of a Sci-Fi film.


Should all use the old English Long bow.

You'd have maybe a dozen people competing

WhoseYourWolfie wrote:

OZ off to a good start...
2 golds in the swimming;
And a bronze in the Archery men's team event.
Meanwhile, later on over in the sailing -- out of the 11-person Aussie team (spread over several different classes..) --four out of those 11 come from a couple of local Lake Macquarie sailing clubs !!!

More records

Katinka Hosszu won the women's 400m individual medley final.
It was a day of world records in the pool, with both Hungary's Katinka Hosszu and Adam Peaty of Britain lowering best times.
Hosszu shattered the women's 400m medley milestone mark of 4:28.3 -- set by China's Ye Shiwen -- knocking more than two seconds off the time to win gold by almost five seconds over America Maya Dirado, with Spain's Mireia Belmonte Garcia completing the podium.
Nicknamed "The Iron Lady," Hosszu had considered quitting after a disappointing London 2012, admitting to suffering depression. But the 27-year-old has dominated the medley events ever since and looks like to strike further gold in Rio, with four more individual events
Hosszu's gold took Hungary's tally in Olympic history to 169, the most ever won by a nation never to have hosted the Games.
Peaty broke his own world record in the 100m backstroke heats (57.55) and could have lowered that time still further in the semifinal but eased off at the end. He looks a banker for gold now having beaten the rest of the field by 1.5 seconds.
The night's final race -- the women's 4x100m freestyle -- was a one-sided battle between Australia and the United States.
Not even having one of the dominant forces of women's swimming on the final leg, Katie Ledecky, could claw back the deficit as the Australian quartet of sisters Cate and Bronte Campbell, Emma McKeon and Brittany Elmslie broke the world record to win gold.
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/08/06/sport/horton-yang-swimming-rio-olympics-day-one/index.html

When Hosszu raised up out of that water to sit perched on the lane guide and raised those massive arms and her shoulders were 'HUGE' ...I fully understood how she busted that Olympic/World record so thoroughly!  Whatever training regime her husband/trainer put her through was quite the 100% difference in her body type from her last competitive swim meet. Lots of rumors of his 'aggressive/controlling/bullying' behavior but it got her where she wanted to be; don't know if their marriage will survive but he's one dedicated coach  

WhoseYourWolfie

Ben Reilly
You'd have maybe a dozen people competing

'Traditional Archery' tournaments over there in the USA draw a couple of thousand entrants each year, while down here they may see a couple of hundred competitors to annual comp's.
And bare bow shooting is also big in those traditional countries like Korea, Japan, Turkey..
IF the IOC announced that they were changing to/or adding a "bare bow" competition, there would already be a new generation of archers potentially available.    

Country G S B Total
1. AUS 3 0 2 5
2. ITA 2 3 2 7
3. CHN 2 2 3 7
4. KOR 2 2 1 5
5. HUN 2 0 0 2
6. USA 1 5 1 7
7. RUS 1 2 2 5
8. JPN 1 0 6 7
9. TPE 1 0 1 2
10. ARG 1 0 0 1
10. BEL 1 0 0 1

Syl wrote:The white water kayaking was brilliant...and GB won a Gold too.

4EVER2 wrote:

Syl wrote:The white water kayaking was brilliant...and GB won a Gold too.

INDEED ...watched that young man -- he's quite the athlete, made my canoeing days look very slow motion like until we'd hit those rapids.  He'd been doing this sport longer then he'd been allowed to officially compete 

Syl wrote:

4EVER2 wrote:
INDEED ...watched that young man -- he's quite the athlete, made my canoeing days look very slow motion like until we'd hit those rapids.  He'd been doing this sport longer then he'd been allowed to officially compete 

It was brilliant....I sea kayak 4Ever....see, we have quite a lot in common underneath all your bluster.

Well, we'll just keep that between us! LOL

4EVER2 wrote:2016 Medal Tracker

                   Gold   Silver   Bronze  =  TOTAL
USA                16       12       10        =    38    
China              11        8        12        =    31    
Japan               7         2        13        =    22    
Russia               4        8         8         =    20    
Great Britain      6        6         6         =    18    
Australia            5        5        6          =    16    
Italy                  3        6        4          =    13    
Rep of Korea      5        3        4          =    12    
France               3        4        5          =    12   

4EVER2 wrote:2016 Medal Tracker

                   Gold   Silver   Bronze  =  TOTAL
USA                20       13       17        =   50    
China              13       10        14       =    37    
Japan               7         3        14       =    24    
Great Britain      7       9          6        =    22 **
Russia               5        9        8         =    22    
Australia            5       6        7          =    18    
France               5       7        5          =    17    
Rep of Korea      6       3        4          =    13    

Syl wrote:How can GB be behind Russia when they have won 2 more Gold medals?

4EVER2 wrote:

Syl wrote:How can GB be behind Russia when they have won 2 more Gold medals?

The Official Olympic page I take my stats off of has them listed that way; would you 'BRITS' prefer that I modify it just to make you all HAPPY? 

Syl wrote:

4EVER2 wrote:
The Official Olympic page I take my stats off of has them listed that way; would you 'BRITS' prefer that I modify it just to make you all HAPPY? 

How sweet of you to offer 4Ever, but don't go to any trouble on our account.  

'other name' ...so it's the least I can do for you!    

4EVER2 wrote:

Syl wrote:
How sweet of you to offer 4Ever, but don't go to any trouble on our account.  

Already a 'DONE DEAL' ...you did me a FAV once when you stopped calling me that 'other name' ...so it's the least I can do for you!    

WhoseYourWolfie wrote:
AUSTRALIA led the medal count on day one...
Since day 3,  it's  (we've)  been bouncing around between #3 and #9  !!!

Hope Solo calls Sweden soccer team ‘cowards’ following loss
 By Yama Hazheer, KRON Published: August 13, 2016, 8:03 am
SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — The US Women’s Soccer Team was eliminated prior to the gold medal game for the first time in history on Friday and goalkeeper Hope Solo didn’t shy away after the game.

“We played a creative game. We had many opportunities on goal. We showed a lot of heart. We came back from a goal down. I’m very proud of this team. We played a bunch of cowards. The best team did not win today. I strongly, firmly believe that. Sweden dropped back. They didn’t want to open play. They didn’t want to pass the ball around. They didn’t want to play great soccer, entertaining soccer. It was a combative game. A physical game. Exactly what they wanted. Exactly what their game plan was. We had that style of play when Pia was our coach. I think it was very cowardly. But they won, they’re moving on. And we’re going home.”
http://kron4.com/2016/08/13/hope-solo-calls-sweden-soccer-team-cowards-following-loss/

4EVER2 wrote:

2016 Medal Tracker

                   Gold   Silver   Bronze  =  TOTAL
USA                 24       18       18        =  60   
China               13       11        17       =   41   
Great Britain     10       13         7        =   30   
Japan                7         3        14        =   24   
Russia               6         9          8        =   23   
Australia            6        7          9         =   22   
France               5        8          5         =   18   
Italy                  6        7          5         =   18   
Germany            8       5           3         =   16   
Rep of Korea      6        3          4         =    13  
Canada              2       2           8         =    12_

4EVER2 wrote:

4EVER2 wrote:
2016 Medal Tracker

                       Gold   Silver   Bronze  =  TOTAL
USA                  26       21       22       =   69  
China                15       13        17       =   45  
Great Britain      15       16         7        =   38  
Russia                9        11        10       =   30  
Japan                 7         4        15        =   26  
Australia             6        7          9         =   22  
France                7        8          7         =   22  
Italy                   7        8          6         =   21  
Germany             8       5           4         =   17  
Rep of Korea       6        3          5         =    14  
Canada               2        2          9         =    13  

                 

**up dated** 4:25 am Monday 8/14/16

nicko wrote:Being that sassy is anti-British she's pissed that wer'e doing so well.

nicko wrote:Being that sassy is anti-British she's pissed that wer'e doing so well.

nicko wrote:Being that sassy is anti-British she's pissed that wer'e doing so well.

sassy wrote:

nicko wrote:Being that sassy is anti-British she's pissed that wer'e doing so well.

Ah, bless Nicko, fancy acknowledging the horrors we have committed and not sticking my head in the sand as you (and others) like to do because you can't face it.

Didge wrote:

sassy wrote:
Ah, bless Nicko, fancy acknowledging the horrors we have committed and not sticking my head in the sand as you (and others) like to do because you can't face it.

Have you committed any horrors?

What are those, as I certainly have not.

Please expand on what horrors th British people of today have done?