We finally got a day off today so we hired a bus and a guide and had a bit of a poke around Beijing. Tiananmen Square. The Forbidden City, but we were allowed! We entered through the emperor’s gate as he got the smoothest paving (and we were following Ricci)! It’s a big place with …

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Today was the finals in the Open Men’s Compound matchplay. We lined up for round 3, the 1/16 elimination, where I was up against Great Britain with our South African mate against USA behind me. The Briton and I shot a tie at 144-144 with him leading all the way until the 5th end. I …

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Today we had the Compound Men Open Team.  To my knowledge this is the first time Australia has ever entered a team Para event so we we went out to have some fun. The Team event is structured a bit like a matchplay event:  We all shoot at the same target butt, and we share …

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Today was the first day of competition. Marek led us off in the Recurve event at 08:30. The Compound event started after lunch, at 13:00. I was on target 4B, Kev was on target 5B and Jono on target 6B.   I shot a new Personal Best which qualified me at 44 out of 74 …

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