Posted August 11, 2016 11:09 am by Comments

On Saturday, American Ginny Thrasher won the first gold medal awarded in the 2016 Rio Olympics, in the 10m air rifle competition. Thrasher, a 19-year-old college student, won a huge upset victory over the heavily-favored (and defending Olympic champion) Chinese shooters. Nobody predicted that she’d medal in Rio, and her win was the first victory in air rifle for the U.S. since 2000.Naturally, Piers Morgan had to try to take away from her incredible victory by making fun of the sport she played, tweeting that it was the “least surprising breaking news ever” that an American athlete had been victorious in a shooting sport. …Read the Rest

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