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Rosario Begins Olympic Quest Today
July 30 ----- Skeet shooter Brian Rosario starts his Olympic journey by aiming at 75 clay targets at the Royal Artillery Barracks today and finishes the elimination round by gunning 50 more tomorrow. The top six finishers of the 36 shooters in contention will advance to shoot at 25 targets each in the finals, also tomorrow.The shooters will move around eight stations with at least two clay targets in each stop. An interval of anywhere between zero to three seconds will gap the release of the targets which are made of pitch and chalk. Three rounds of 25 targets apiece will comprise the schedule today and two more rounds of 25 tomorrow. In every station, one target will be high and the other, low. To make 25 targets in eight stations, there will be stops with three clay “pigeons.” The sequence is predetermined unlike in the trap event.
Source: philstar.com