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      The dude is an ex officer and a former world record holder, a 4 time world champion in shooting, has been top 3 in 27 european and world championship competitions, and has been competing for over 2 decades now. He won silver at the last Olympics

      The woman recently won Gold at the Olympics.

      The joke is that she needed all that equipment and perfect form to beat a guy who literally walked on with a pack of ciggies and a tshirt and shot with both eyes open

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        My favorite part of this is how he subconsciously wiped the fingerprints off his gun when he was done

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          That’s be amazing if he also took it apart while walking away and dropped the pieces in different trash cans

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        He probably wasn’t trying that hard at all.

        I highly doubt that’s true.

        His shooting style is just more traditional while hers is more contemporary.

        Both are amazing shooters and among the best in the world.

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        Thank you for the explanation! I never really watched the Olympics enough to see them firing guns. I would think all that high tech equipment counts as performance enhancement stuff which goes against the spirit of peak human based skill but maybe sports people who actually watch that stuff think differently about external augmentations in some cases.

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        full of blinking lights

        DAS KOMPUTERMASCHINE IST NICHT FÜR DER GEFINGERPOKEN UND MITTENGRABEN!

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        Shooting with both eyes open is actually easier, your whole face is relaxed, and relaxation is key to accurate shooting. At least that’s what I was taught in the military

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        Are you fucking kidding me? Yeji had style, it’s nothing about random tech. Get the fuck out of here and leave our girl alone

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      Olympic medalists from this past olympics. They both performed very well for different reasons, and were very popular because of their styles.

      Most people are using the same tech as Yeji, but her form, grace, and relaxation made her stand out. And I’m absolutely furious for the other trash poster putting her down like that. She did all that while mothering a four year old ffs.

      And she beat Linus’s ass, too.