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 Olympic history abounds with
tales of athletes who overcame crippling adversity to win
gold medals, but Karoly Takacs' comeback may be the best.
Takacs was part of Hungary's world-champion pistol-shooting
team in 1938 when an army grenade exploded in his right
hand. Ten years later, he won the first two golds in
rapid-fire pistol - after teaching himself to shoot
left-handed.
In a sport where the
bullseye looks about the size of the full stop at the end of
this sentence, a sport where shooters compete amid a
cacophony of noise and still concentrate on firing between
heartbeats, Takacs' achievement tests the imagination.
From just three shooting
events at the 1896 Olympic Games to 15 today, the sport has
grown steadily. In part this leap can be ascribed to
advances in the technology of firearms and equipment, which
have led to constant changes in the shooting competition.
But it can also be ascribed to the passion shooters have for
their sport.
The shooting events are
divided into three different groups: rifle, pistol and
shotgun events. The rifle and pistol events are held on
shooting ranges with competitors aiming at targets from
distances of 10 metres, 25 metres and 50 metres. The shotgun
events see competitors shoot at clay targets propelled in
different directions.
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