Koretzky swung across as the course rejoined, obviously hoping he was going to beat Pidcock but clearly didn’t have the acceleration and clipped Pidcock. I’ve watched it several times, and Pidcock had the best, straight line and the speed, Koretzky misjudged the line, timing and just how fast Pidcock was able to put the hammer down and get his wheel in front.
No bias, it’s perfectly clear that Pidcock had the speed in his legs, and the absolute determination to get in front.
Brilliant performance, great racing.
Why is Archery such a thing in S Korea?
It’s part of their history and culture, I think going back to horse-mounted warriors and possibly back to the Mongol horse archers. They really are the team to beat in international competitions. It’s a shame that archery isn’t a bigger part of our culture, considering our history of using archers in battle, even as recently as the 1700’s – musketeers were used extensively at that time, but there were still trained archers in the British army. A warbow practice distance as set by law was twelve score yards (240), or 219 metres, a range that’s now been easily beaten by longbow archers using bows made to medieval pattern, so somewhere close to 8-900 feet.
Trouble there, is, finding the space to safely shoot a bow to those distances, international competitions shoot at 70m, 230ft, at the club I shoot at, I changed from 30 to 40 yds, while changing my sight an arrow just went over the top of the target and I found it at the 70m line; there is a 10° limit on the elevation that you can shoot at, to avoid the risk of arrows going outside the club boundary.
Especially true when shooting compound bows, which aren’t included in Olympic events. Yet.
