Matt Emmons Is An Incredible American
CH#INA’S newspapers focus on Matt Emmons, who failed to claim any medal in the 50-meter 3-position rifle competition due to a stunning mistake on the final shot, dropping him to a fourth-place finish.
In the same event in Athens, he shot at another competitor’s target.
Oh?
He didn’t intend to pull the trigger but did “very softly.” The shot missed the bull’s eye. His score was 4.4, the lowest by anybody in the competition, not really a score at all. A 6.7 was all he needed to win gold. Nobody in the 10-shot finals scored worse than 7.7 (on an 11-point scale) for any shot.
He ended up fourth.
Unlucky, or..?
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August 18th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
sounds like the gymnast who scored 0 because they didn’t wait for the OK to start.
August 18th, 2008 at 10:53 am
bloody lucky to get 4th from the sound of it!