On the day of the Olympic ceremony archers took their place on the line to shoot the ranking round. Unfortunately, this initial round was not open to the public and there have been reports of disappointed spectators being turned away after purchase of fake tickets (liveolympictickets.com, reported as one of these fraudulent sited).
However, media coverage of today's event is keeping the excited friends, families and fans up-to-date one the latest nail biting events so far. Although it is only the qualifying rounds Im Dong-hyun has already broken a world record by scoring 696 with 72 arrows, beating his previous record of 693. One record wasn't enough apparently, and the Korean team (Im Dong-hyun, Kim Budmin and Oh Jin-hyek) went on to score 2087 from 216 arrows, breaking yet another world record!
It is then no surprise that the 3 Korean competitors currently sit at the top of the men individual table. Also in the top 10 men individual category are archers from GB, Japan, France, China, Canada and the USA. In the team events Korea is currently followed by France, China, USA and Japan, with India in 12 (last) place.
For the individual women archery event Korea again are top, taking both first and second position. Other countries with arechers in the women individual event include Taipei, USA, Japan, Denmark, India and Mexico. Again for the women team event Korea are top and are followed by the USA, Taipei, Mexico and Japan, to make up the top 5 countries in the archery women team event.
With 2 new records shot in one day, viewers will be glued to their TV in anticipation of greater scores as the competition mounts. Stay tuned to see if Korea continue to lead the way. For full rankings and results take a look at the London2012 web site.
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