Shooter Johnson of U.S. Wins First Gold of Games

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ArmySon

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Shooter Johnson of U.S. Wins First Gold of Games
September 15, 2000 9:02 pm EST

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Nancy Johnson of the United States won the first gold medal of the 2000 Olympics when she finished first in the women's 10 meter air rifle competition on Saturday.
Johnson, 26, came from behind in the final to win the gold having qualified second equal earlier in the day.

She won with a score of 497.7.

Kang Cho-hyun of South Korea, who qualified in first place and led for much of the final, had to settle for silver with a score of 497.5.

Gao Jing of China finished strongly to claim the bronze medal with a score 497.2.

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Oh, I just can't wait to hear about the gold medal won with a gun on CNN! I'll bet that gun just jumped up there and fired that 497.7 all by itself, just like other guns just jump up and kill people. Yeah.
 
Way to go, Nancy! An American woman with a gun wins the first Olympic Gold Medal. How perfect can that be?!

Fox news nicely reported her accomplishment. It'll be interesting to see how other news media outlets report this story.

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They spend two hours (off and on) showing Americans place out of the medals in Womens Triathlon, and spend approximately 20 seconds covering our first gold medal of the Olympics in Womens 10m. Infuriated yes, surprised no. I e-mailed NBC several months ago telling them I wanted to see a better variety of sports, especially archery and shooting. Guess they're going to hear from me again.

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She better not live in the PRK, or the tag team of Fineswine/Boxer will run her out on a rail. Can't have GUNS being a POSITIVE influence on the young, now can we?
 
Kudos to Nancy, and a great big raspberry to the San Diego Union-Tribune for burying it on page 5!
crankshaft
paranoia is just the ticket when they actually are out to get You!
 
U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!
U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!
U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!
U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!
U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!
U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!
U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!

Well done, young lady! I was staggered when I actually saw this event covered on network TV. They showed her winning shot on target and even explained that she was shooting into .2" at 32 feet.
 
SUB M.O.A I completly agree the variety of coverage SUXS.

THERE are only three events in the medias mind, I think most of you have an Idea what those are.
 
WTG Nancy!!!!!
The FIRST gold of the Olympics, and they bury somewhere in back of the papers. However, the first thing I see on cnn.com was a SWIMMER??

When will these people understand that it ain't a sport, unless a hole-punching projectile is involved; everything else is P.E.
 
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