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Peter Wilson age 25 takes Olympic Gold at Double Trap with 198 x 200. Amazingly he actually missed a straight pair or else it would have been and unbeatable 200 x 200. Lagopus.....

hello lagopus,
yes,wilson won gold for britain but i think you may have posted the wrong score.i watched the event and he missed considerably more than two.full congratulations to him nonetheless!
apologies if i am mistaken
cheers

mrwmartin

Peter did a great job - nail biting stuff down to the last pair to win.
The 198/200 was his world record score in Arizon back in March. I think the score this afternoon was 188/200.
John

Peter shot brilliantly. Going into the last pair, he had 186, which matched the highest completed score. So, he could have missed both and tied. Of course, he smoked them. At the end, he dropped to his knees in joy and the incomparable Ian Coley, who has coached team Great Britain to many golds and records for decades went up to embrace him. Quite an emotional day all around.

Congratulations to the Brits!! Of course he WAS shooting a SXS; right?..............after all.

After years of shooting International Skeet and the occasional round of International Trap, when I see the doubles game shot, I can only think, "How do they do that?"

My wife very impressed by the "truss" ribs.

Just finished watching Hancock go strait in the men's skeet final on the iPad ap that Dick Dupl 1 describes. Much easier than trying to find events on NBC; missing commentary of course. I did manage to work out no. of shots per station without actually consulting the rules. I was amazed to find that the "International" view of the difficulty of 7 is about the same as that held by most duffer shooters and the no. of shots reduced to the double. Doubles at 4 twice over? Perhaps a bit much! Yassar fromn Qatar definitely the nervous sort; constantly quivering. Lots of other odd things: blinders on one shooter; strange super tight-radius pistol grips and a "thumbhole" that looks like a thumbrest. Despite all these new things to me (I understand the stripe and the delay) I'd have to say that every shooter looked more or less orthodox to me with the exception of Rhode in the women's final.

jack

Sorry. Mr M, I just came in at the final moments and got confused on the score. He won and that's what mattered. Amazing that the Left Wing P.C. British Broadcasting Corporation actually televised the event! Good boost to shooting pity he missed the oportunity to say about the complete waste of money in building the shooting centre just to cost again to knock it all down and no 'Lasting Legacy' for the sport. Disgusting! Lagopus.....

Couldn't agree with you more lagopus, at last count 30 Million GBP for all shooting facilities at Greenwich, all to be torn down later! Bisley is an easy and accessible drive for me, which would have been perfect and the facilities are superb. I will never understand this.

hello again lagopus,
yes,super publicity for our sport thanks to wilson etc.Surprisingly, he was given a fair interview afterwards and he came across as a superb ambassador on shootings behalf.A bit of light at the end of the tunnel ,hopefully.
cheers

mrwmartin