19 year-old Virginia Thrasher (USA) just won GOLD!!!

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DFWdude
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19 year-old Virginia Thrasher (USA) just won GOLD!!!

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in the 10m air rifle shoot-off at the Olympics. How fine! Defeated both Chinese shooters by a full point.

I hoped that Sarah Scherer would do better, since she's from the Dallas area. But alas, she finished 8th.

I REALLY like the new shootoff format. Exciting and suspenseful to watch.
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Big congrats to Ginny.
Great Job to Sarah too .... both USA contestants made the final!
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Just watched opening ceremony last night. Was really great. But Thrasher already won gold?!?!?!? That's amazing!!!
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DFWdude wrote:in the 10m air rifle shoot-off at the Olympics. How fine! Defeated both Chinese shooters by a full point.

I hoped that Sarah Scherer would do better, since she's from the Dallas area. But alas, she finished 8th.

I REALLY like the new shootoff format. Exciting and suspenseful to watch.
Amazing performance by Ginny.

I too wished Sarah had performed better. She posted on FB that one of the officials made her change her buttplate 10 minutes before the final!
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Great seeing her performance live. What an amazing year she is having!

FYI
NBC Sports has a free app that lets you get alerts and stream live all the shooting finals (and other sports also ;). They also have the streams recorded so you can watch later. (There is just a 30 second video prior to the event, and then you are good to go.

So if you did not get a chance to watch this morning, you can watch it now.
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Very cool! Congrats to Virginia Thrasher on bring home the Gold. Go USA!
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