Sunday, 24 June 2012

Top 10 - Interesting Olympic Archery Facts




1. If the archers’ arrow bounces off the target the archer holds up a flag to let the judges 
     know and their score is taken from a mark on the target, if it can be identified.  
    
2. In the archery team rounds the athletes can be coached while on the shooting line.

3. The modern Olympic recurve bow is based on a design from 1500 BC.

4. Archery first appeared in the second Olympics in 1900 Paris and continued to appear at 3 
     further Olympics until it was dropped for 50 years until 1972. From 1972, its consistently 
     remained a an Olympic sport.
    
5. South Korea has obtained, in total, the most Olympic gold medals so far.

6. France has taken part in 12 out of the 14 Olympic games that have include Archery to 
     date – this is the highest participating nation (not by number of archers). 
    
7. A protected area known as the blind is where you can find the judges and their spotter 
    (who uses a telescope to record scores).

8. There are several classifications for Olympic sports such as cycling, swimming and 
     gymnastics, but only one classification/bow type for archery. This is the recurve bow (not 
     counting the Paralympics where there are two bow types, recurve and compound).

9. Archers have just 40 seconds to release the arrow

10. If an arrow is dropped/miss fired on the shooting line then the archer can re shoot the 
       arrow if they can reach it (from the shooting line).

7 comments:

  1. 9 is false. An Archer has either 2 minutes to shoot 3 arrows or 4 minutes to shoot 6 arrows

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  2. 9 is correct, in the head to head round each archer has 40s to shoot each of his three arrows. This is because the archers alternate in shooting. Obviously 3x40s is 2 mins. In the qualification round it will be 6 arrows in 4 mins.

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  3. 10 may be correct but archers do not fire arrows unless they're on fire. Firing implies combustion. Arrows are loosed or shot.

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    1. 10 is correct and they don't only fire arrows that are on fire

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  4. 9 is correct, in the real one 40 second to shoot one arrow. So, 3x40 is 2 min. and 6x40 is 4 min. Its obviously true.

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