So today the Archers went through their ranking rounds which determines who will face who in the knock-out competition. A good result here gives a team or a singles athlete a much easier way to the finals. Before the event even got started trouble began as people started crowding outside to spectate the event. The only problem was that this wasn't meant to be an event where spectators would watch and the organizers had said that this was an event one couldn't get tickets for. However a big crowd had interpreted this as the event being a free event where one didn't need tickets. People where not happy when they where told they couldn't get in to see the event, but in my mind people should have understood that this was a closed event and that there's nothing like a free arena event in the Olympics.
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So over to the results that were nothing short of amazing with two new world records for the ranking rounds. In my post about the Men's Archery competition I said to look out for South Korea and boy was I right, Im Dong-Hyun or "Koreas blind archer" as he is known by his fans improved on his own world records by three points giving a total of 699 out of 720 points. I think his teammate Bubmin Kim probably was a little annoyed of Im's amazing performance as he finished only a point behind Im at 698 that on any other day would have been a new world record. Third place also went to their fellow teammate Jin Hyek Oh who shot a very respectable 680 taking third place a whole ten points ahead of the closest competitors. The South Korean Men's team of course won the team ranking which came as no shock, the shock came when they smashed the world record by 18 points ending up with a total of 2,087 out of 2,160 points.
In the Women's competition ended in a three-way tie between Ki Bo Bae (KOR), Lee Sung Jin (KOR) and Tan Ya-Ting (CHT) scoring 671 out of 720 points. Again Bo Bae (KOR) showed that the Women's competition is the South Koreas to loose with her getting the top spot with more tens inside the x-ring. It came as no suprise that the South Korean Women's team came out on topafter the ranking round and they had a healthy distance to the other teams.
After seeing the ranking results there isn't any doubt in my mind that South Korea will be going home with a minimum of two gold medals and it would be no suprise if they went home with all four. I even think the men have a shot at winning all the medals as their rankings put them in a position to do so, but it'll be a hard fight.
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