Olympic Archery

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Zbone 23-Jul-24

Corax_latrans 23-Jul-24

wytex 23-Jul-24

Zbone 23-Jul-24

Bou'bound 23-Jul-24

Zbone 24-Jul-24

Lost Arra 24-Jul-24

Scoot 24-Jul-24

Will 24-Jul-24

c3 24-Jul-24

Lost Arra 24-Jul-24

Zbone 24-Jul-24

Lost Arra 24-Jul-24

Zbone 24-Jul-24

c3 24-Jul-24

c3 25-Jul-24

Zbone 25-Jul-24

DanaC 26-Jul-24

Bowboy 26-Jul-24

Lost Arra 27-Jul-24

Zbone 27-Jul-24

Zbone 28-Jul-24

DanaC 28-Jul-24

Zbone 28-Jul-24

Beendare 28-Jul-24

Zbone 28-Jul-24

Lost Arra 28-Jul-24

Zbone 28-Jul-24

Boris 28-Jul-24

Corax_latrans 28-Jul-24

c3 28-Jul-24

Zbone 28-Jul-24

Corax_latrans 29-Jul-24

Zbone 29-Jul-24

Chuckster 29-Jul-24

Zbone 29-Jul-24

Zbone 30-Jul-24

Zbone 31-Jul-24

Bowboy 31-Jul-24

Zbone 31-Jul-24

Corax_latrans 31-Jul-24

Lucas 31-Jul-24

Zbone 31-Jul-24

Corax_latrans 31-Jul-24

Zbone 31-Jul-24

Zbone 01-Aug-24

Ricky The Cabel Guy 01-Aug-24

Corax_latrans 01-Aug-24

DanaC 02-Aug-24

Zbone 03-Aug-24

Phil Magistro 03-Aug-24

Zbone 03-Aug-24

Zbone 04-Aug-24

DanaC 04-Aug-24

Trying hard 05-Aug-24

Beendare 05-Aug-24

DanaC 07-Aug-24

DL 07-Aug-24

Beendare 07-Aug-24

Zbone 07-Aug-24

Corax_latrans 07-Aug-24

Zbone 07-Aug-24

Rgiesey 07-Aug-24

Corax_latrans 07-Aug-24

From: Zbone

23-Jul-24

Anybody looking forward towards Olympic Archery? Archery events begins Thursday, actually begins before the Opening Ceremony:

"https://www.archeryeurope.org/news/archery-schedule-at-paris-2024-olympic-games/

There will still be eight days of consecutive competition at Paris 2024, but the women’s and men’s team medals will be the first to be awarded, on Sunday 28 and Monday 29 July. They will then be followed by the three days of individual eliminations.

The mixed team title will be the third medal won, on Friday 2 August, and then the Olympic archery competition will conclude as normal with the women’s and men’s individual finals days on Saturday 3 and Sunday 4 August 2024.

Schedule: Paris 2024 Olympic Games

Thursday 25 July – qualifying

Sunday 28 July – women’s team finals

Monday 29 July – men’s team finals

Tuesday 30 July-Thursday 1 August – individual eliminations

Friday 2 August – mixed team finals

Saturday 3 August – women’s finals

Sunday 4 August – men’s finals"

But, I can't find a U.S.A. TV schedule for these events or even if they are going to be televised here... Urrr...

If anybody comes across a TV schedule, please post it... Thank you...

From: Corax_latrans

23-Jul-24

Probably got bumped so they can cover golf…

From: wytex

23-Jul-24

You have to click the link at top the top to get each days coverage: https://www.nbcolympics.com/schedule

Archery was not on Thursday schedule but maybe on Peacock.

From: Zbone

23-Jul-24

That worked wytex, thank you sir:

https://www.nbcolympics.com/news/how-watch-archery-paris-olympics-tv-and-stream-schedule

"Archery at the 2024 Paris Olympics will air on NBC, USA Network, CNBC, and E!, and stream on Peacock and NBC Olympics platforms starting on Thursday, July 25.

Dates: July 25 - August 4

Medal events: Men's and women's individual, men's and women's team, mixed team

Venue: Esplanade de Invalides

TV channels: NBC, USA Network, CNBC, E!

Streaming: Peacock, NBCOlympics.com, NBC.com, NBC app, NBC Olympics app"

From: Bou'bound

23-Jul-24

This will be epic. Go USA.

From: Zbone

24-Jul-24

Over on the LeatherWall saying there in no Men's Olympic Archery team this year, only Brady Ellison in Men's Individual...

Anybody know why no men's team?

I know they got disqualified from the World Cup in Antalya earlier this month for unsportsmen like conduct, but read they had done so purposely for some reason, but hadn't heard the reason... Anybody know what is going on?

From: Lost Arra

24-Jul-24

The US team needed to face China and defeat them in the bracket round in order to have a chance of qualifying for the Olympics so in a one arrow shoot off with Italy and Brazil the US wanted to lose so they could face China early in the bracket round but ended up finishing ahead of Brazil. They now faced Korea and lost. This type of bracket maneuvering apparently isn't uncommon but one of the sponsors in Turkey was a sports betting operation and it looked like points shaving. No rules were broken but the Americans got a wrist slap. The disqualification did not keep them out of the Olympics. They just never got a chance to beat China. Brady is still in the Olympics and the women have a full team. There may be other details but I think that sums it up.

From: Scoot

24-Jul-24

"Probably got bumped so they can cover golf…"

Yes, probably so. Thank goodness!

From: Will

24-Jul-24

Love the Olympics. Archery and the rest of it. I'd not specifically looked at the archery schedule, so thanks for this heads up.

From: c3

24-Jul-24

Only Brady qualified for the individual event for the Men.

Casey Kaufhold, Jennifer Mucino Fernandez and Catalina GNoriega are the women's team. All three qualified for the individual event as well.

Hoping there will be some footage and live scoring, but World Archery and USA Archery websites are so lame, you can't find anything. Also hoping for some extended youtube highlights as it goes on, but not holding my breath.

On a side note the US head coach KiSik Lee has been away caring for his son who has terminal cancer in Australia and is retiring. Sad news on both accounts and my prayers are with KiSik and his whole family.

Cheers, Pete

From: c3

24-Jul-24

Thanks for the update Bob. I hadn't seen that and didn't know what was up.

Cheers, Pete

From: Lost Arra

24-Jul-24

Pete: that's just what I read but it is the Internet so it could have been posted by Abraham Lincoln

From: Zbone

24-Jul-24

Lost Arra - "The US team needed to face China and defeat them in the bracket round in order to have a chance of qualifying for the Olympics"

So this qualifying was done at the World Cup in Antalya earlier this month???

Thanks...

From: Lost Arra

24-Jul-24

Lost Arra's Link

Z correct. But I think it was in June. The link has more details

From: Zbone

24-Jul-24

Thank you sir...

From: c3

24-Jul-24

My 85 year old dad called today about noon mtn time to say there was archery on one of the channels. I went through peacocktv and it doesn't have any replays for archery. Shows only the upcoming events to go off on the 29th at 1:30 in the morning :)

If you have insomnia could be worth going and checking out.

Cheers, Pete

From: c3

25-Jul-24

c3's Link

Did find a link to qualifying today with the men's scores still live !!!

https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/results/archery/men-s-individual/qual000100--

Cheers, Pete

From: Zbone

25-Jul-24

Thanks Pete!!!

I was trying to find results today without much luck, thanks for link...

GO Brady Ellison!!!... He ranked 7th going into 1/32 Elimination Round to shoot against 58th ranked Abdullah Yildirmis of Turkey on August 1 @ 4:48PM, (Eastern time)

From: Zbone

25-Jul-24

Woman's Individual Qualifying Ranking from USA:

4 KAUFHOLD Casey

38 GNORIEGA Catalina

57 MUCINO Jennifer

Am kind looking forward to the trap and skeet events too...

From: DanaC

26-Jul-24

I believe Brady, and (one of the ladies) are eligible for the 'mixed doubles' event/award.

From: Bowboy

26-Jul-24

Bowboy's Link

Here’s some of the women’s individual shooting today. The Korean’s are hard to beat. Broke the world record with a 694.

From: Lost Arra

27-Jul-24

Thanks. Watching those women shoot makes me feel totally inept at archery form.

From: Zbone

27-Jul-24

Thanks for link Bowboy...

Looks like a some of the ladies are shooting Fivics...

Some Win & Win... I like the color of Lim Si-Hyeon's bow riser she set the world record points score...

Some Hoyts...

From: Zbone

27-Jul-24

It's kinda confusing keeping these event time correct, but I think all the Archery events tomorrow are Women's Archery events...

Scheduled for tomorrow:

@ 03:30 EDT: Archery Women's Team 1/8 Elimination Round (#1) United States/Chinese Taipei I don't see where it is televised..

Team Elimination Rounds Scheduled Starting 4:00 am EDT Being televised on CNBC

Archery Women's Team: Quarterfinals Scheduled Starting 8:15?am EDT, being televised on USA Network

Archery Women's Team: Semifinal, Final Scheduled Starting 10:10?am EDT, being televised on USA Network

Goes on until Gold Metal Match scheduled for 11:11 AM

Archery Team Elimination Rounds Scheduled Starting 4:00?am EDT Being televised on CNBC

From: Zbone

28-Jul-24

USA Women's Team was eliminated by Chinese Taipei (Taiwan) early this AM...

I was checking out their bows, all 3 of the USA ladies were shooting Hoyts, as was two from Taiwan and one was shooting a WIN & WIN...

From: DanaC

28-Jul-24

Pretty sure Hoyt is a major sponsor of the US Olympic archery team.

From: Zbone

28-Jul-24

Women's Team Archery Quarterfinals starts in about 5 minutes on USA Network....

Yeah, from what I watched so far, a LOT of Hoyt bows in many countries teams, BUT, a lot of WIN &WIN too... It's kinda always been like that since I've been following since London 2012... I was actually surprised to see the Fivics I posted above...

From: Beendare

28-Jul-24

That bow shot to light the big torch was awesome

From: Zbone

28-Jul-24

Women's Team Archery Finals, South Korea wins Gold in shootoff over China...

The shootoff was kinda exciting, those South Korean girls are a machine, said they have won Gold for the last 10 Olympics, I think they said the longest Gold winning streak in modern Olympic history...

All 6 bows in the Finals were WIN & WINs...

From: Lost Arra

28-Jul-24

I wish they would use a camera angle that gives some perspective of the shot distance.

From: Zbone

28-Jul-24

Yeah, that'd be cool... They were saying today the arrow arch is over 3'...

Men's Teams scheduled for tomorrow...

From: Boris

28-Jul-24

I think the women shoot at 60 meters, 122 centimeter target. Men shoot at 70 meters and 122 centimeter target.

From: Corax_latrans

28-Jul-24

This morning they were saying that the women (team event) were at 70m. They didn’t specify the size of the bull, though..

Pretty cool to see petite women shooting better at 0% let-off with their fingers and no peep than most “manly” bowhunters can shoot with a peep, single-digit holding weight and a caliper….

From: c3

28-Jul-24

Both men and women shoot the 122cm target at 70m. The 10 ring is 4.8" with the x-ring at 2.4"

Cheers, Pete

From: Zbone

28-Jul-24

"The 10 ring is 4.8" with the x-ring at 2.4""

How big is the "spider", the small x inside the 10X-ring?

From: Zbone

28-Jul-24

For those interested they are televising the Men's Archery Team metal rounds at 1:30 PM eastern, on USA Network tomorrow, Monday, the 29th...

From: Corax_latrans

29-Jul-24

“How big is the "spider", the small x inside the 10X-ring?”

About the size of a bug…

Wish I had seen your last update in time to record that….

From: Zbone

29-Jul-24

I watched the men's team metal rounds today at 1:30PM, and the South Korean Men's Team won Gold... Those South Korean's are archery machines, Brady is going to have his hands full in the individuals... There are 3 of them, I wish Brady all the best...

From: Zbone

29-Jul-24

Next televised tomorrow morning @ 8:45AM EDT Archery Men's and Women's Individual: 1/32 and 1/16 Eliminations on "E" Network...

Also on USA Network tomorrow, July 30th, 9:00 - 9:48PM,, Archery Individuals rounds 64 and 32, and Wednesday, July 31st @ 08:00 AM...

Am kinda looking forward to the Mixed Team Archery event, one man and one lady team against the others countries... I've never seen one of those events, scheduled to be televised for Friday August 2nd @ 09:15AM on USA Network... Mixed Team 1/8 Elimination Rounds on Friday 2 August 2024 @ 5:24 with USA's Brady ELLISON (male) and Casey KAUFHOLD (female) against Uzbekistan UZB team...

From: Chuckster

29-Jul-24

I watched the womens gold medal match. Very intense. Just curious, does anyone know about what poundage the ladies pull? They seem to draw very easy. I noticed a couple girls had lines straight down from their lower lip in their skin. Probably from the thousands of shots they have taken. A couple even had a band aid on in that area.

From: Zbone

29-Jul-24

Yeah, I noticed to band aids too, and the ones that didn't have them and showed lines I was assuming was bowstring wax...

Over a decade ago got into a discussion over on the Leatherwall about Olympic bow weights, but that would be a good question for limbwalker (he's posts here once in a while), I think he qualified for the Olympics once... Viper was also involved with Olympic shooting if I remember right...

If I remember correctly, the ladies bows were in the 35# range and the men's were in the 50# range...

I'm sure all Olympians shoot Easton 10X arrow shafts with spin wings or kurly vanes... Notice you don't see feathers or regular looking vanes... I bought some spin wings years ago to experiment with but they were a too hard to fletch... I think I still have them somewhere...

From: Zbone

29-Jul-24

I just googled it, sounds like it is still the same :

"What bow do Olympic archers use? In Olympic archery, competitors use recurve bows that draw an average of around 48.5 pounds for the men and 33 pounds for the women. The bow may have a mechanical sight, but no optical enhancements. It also may feature stabilizers on the bow" "

https://www.nbcolympics.com/news/archery-101-olympic-equipment

From: Zbone

30-Jul-24

The few interviews I seen of Brady Ellison he seemed to be down to earth and a pretty cool guy and his Olympic bio lists "Hobbies: Fishing, hunting, cooking, playing golf" and I had read he was a hunter, so I wonder if he hunts big game with a recurve or compound?

From: Zbone

31-Jul-24

Was watching today's Men's eliminating round where the Italian was not shooting spin-wing type fletching but rather what looked to me like 2" vane shrink wrap vanes... Anybody know what type shrink wraps these are?

From: Bowboy

31-Jul-24

Yes Brady hunts. Here’s one with a compound.

From: Bowboy

31-Jul-24

Here’s another. Doesn’t show his bow.

From: Zbone

31-Jul-24

Thanks Bowboy... Would have thought he hunted with a recurve... Hmmm, guess not...

He's scheduled to shoot against 58th ranked Abdullah Yildirmis of Turkey tomorrow @ 4:48PM, (Eastern time)

From: Corax_latrans

31-Jul-24

“I think [limbwalker] qualified for the Olympics once... Viper was also involved with Olympic shooting if I remember right...”

Limbwalker has been to the Olympics as a coach; I don’t know that he ever went as a competitor. Viper (Anthony Camera) is a coach and the author of a well regarded book on the subject (https://www.amazon.com/Shooting-Stickbow-Practical-Approach-Classical/dp/1602642443)

I don’t know that Viper has or hasn’t been directly involved in Olympic competition either as an Archer or as a Coach, but he does teach/coach people using Olympic Style equipment.

From: Lucas

31-Jul-24

Limbwalker went to the 2004 Olympics as an athlete.

From: Zbone

31-Jul-24

Yeah Lucas, he was on the 2004 Olympic Archery team, I just looked limbwalker up, that was 2 decades ago now... Found a Wikipedia page about John: "He was a member of the 2004 Summer Olympics", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Magera

From: Corax_latrans

31-Jul-24

Good info! Thanks for the link.

From: Zbone

31-Jul-24

BTW - No help with the shrink wrap vanes, anybody ever seen them or what they are? Thanks...

From: Zbone

01-Aug-24

After further review, I took pix with cell phone off TV, I guess they are not shrink wrap vanes but some kind of a spin vane... Anybody recognize the logo? I take it this one is a left helical/spin?

From: Ricky The Cabel Guy

01-Aug-24

congrats to casey kaufhold advancing to the round of 16 in the womens individual competition this morning.

From: Ricky The Cabel Guy

01-Aug-24

looks like casey was eliminated in the round of 16. :(

From: Corax_latrans

01-Aug-24

How about maybe we don’t post Spoilers for at least a day or two so that those who have recorded the competition can find out when the next event is without having to find out who won the last one?

From: DanaC

02-Aug-24

DanaC's Link

https://www.outdoorlife.com/hunting/team-usa-wins-bronze-in-archery-mixed-team/

From: Zbone

03-Aug-24

I just watched the Women's Individual through the metal rounds... All three of the South Korea ladies were the finals taking Gold, Silver and 4th, all shooting WIN & WIN bows... Man, they are good...

Men's Individual tomorrow, starting in the morning eastern time... GO Brady Ellison!!!

From: Phil Magistro

03-Aug-24

Congratulations to Casey and Brady for medaling in the mixed team archery!

From: Zbone

03-Aug-24

Yeah Phil...

Luv this photo from DanaC's link provided...

For those into the shooting events, USA took Gold and Silver in Men's Individual Skeet, and Sagen Maddalena in Women's 3-Position 50 Meter Rifle took Silver... Am curious as to what brand .22 rimfire ammo they shoot...

From: Zbone

04-Aug-24

Brady takes Silver... Tell you what, it was nerve racking, came down to ONE last arrow in a tied shoot off and the both scored a 10 but Kim's arrow was closer to the center...8^(((

Can't even imagine the pressure,,, Great Drama...

From: Zbone

04-Aug-24

Zbone's Link

Condensed version of Gold Metal Match video:

https://www.nbcnews.com/video/south-korea-s-kim-woojin-outlasts-usa-s-ellison-to-win-%20archery-men-s-gold-216374853870

From: DanaC

04-Aug-24

DanaC's Link

https://apnews.com/article/olympics-2024-archery-a605c0546351a75847ecc7b75471fdf8

American Brady Ellison, in 5th Olympics, misses elusive gold in shoot-off with South Korea’s Kim

From: Trying hard

05-Aug-24

Congrats to Brady Ellison ... It was that close ....wow Nothing wrong with a silver medal....the rest of us can only dream.

From: Beendare

05-Aug-24

Wow, That shoot off was something.

70 meters.....both tied on the final round shooting 3 arrows each in about a 5" circle.

The both shoot what was essentially a 10[ Brady's might have been just outside or on the line...but Kim's arrow was 2" closer inside the 10. Wow

From: DanaC

07-Aug-24

DanaC's Link

https://www.outdoorlife.com/hunting/what-bowhunters-can-learn-from-elite-olympic-archers/

From: DL

07-Aug-24

Too bad they don’t have flying target competitions. Tim Wells would be a good competitor for that event. I was watching a video of archers in Mongolia riding on horseback shooting targets another good event. Watched one guy take out a drone. Rapid fire and accuracy would be interesting too.

From: Beendare

07-Aug-24

I hunted elk in AZ many years ago and had a couple of those Olympic archers camped next to us along with Dick Tone ( ex olympic coach) including Greg Minton - ex Giants reliever (that was an eclectic group with some crazy stories!)

Seems to me the olympic guys said they shot 45-48# or close to it- the longer distance and cleaner release with more #’s was the reason they gave.

From: Zbone

07-Aug-24

I always wondered if the ladies are shooting in the 35# range and hitting 10s why wouldn't the men take that advantage,,, they'd be able to hold steadier...

From: Corax_latrans

07-Aug-24

Maybe steadier, but a lot of guys get a cleaner release with higher poundage, and of course windage is a function of hang time….

I am off to go tune up the #62….. But I’m not going to be taking many dozens of shots at that weight…..

From: Zbone

07-Aug-24

Anybody else notice from a certain camera view when those arrows were launched the radical paradox a few yards out of the bow? It's amazing that those tiny thin lightweight curly vanes eventually straighten them out...

From: Rgiesey

07-Aug-24

Shot next to Darrell Pace in 1982. I think 51# at the clicker.

From: Corax_latrans

07-Aug-24

“ It's amazing that those tiny thin lightweight curly vanes eventually straighten them out...”

It’s not the vanes that straighten out the shaft; it’s the shaft returning to its un-flexed shape. Same as a bare shaft will do….. and I would be stunned to find out that their bows won’t put a bare shaft right down the middle. Hell, even MY set-ups will do that out to 50-60 yards….

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