Amazing archery
Here's an amazing story on archery by a blind woman:
Janice, like the rest of the field, shoots 120 arrows — 40 rounds of three, or "ends" in archery parlance — over 9 hours in two days during the weekend. A perfect score is 1,200, meaning 120 10s. The best in this tournament is 1,140.
Janice scores 435.
"Last year I shot 478. I'm disappointed because I wanted to beat last year's score. And, since I have nobody else to compete against, I compete against myself."
Asked if she beat anybody, she says, "I may have beaten one of the 6-year-olds. I doubt that I beat many people, but I don't care."
Her mother adds, "She does her personal best, and that's where it is right now."
Walth is on a two-fold mission: improve her score to the point she's challenging the lower level of "sighted" archers; and, above all, promote the sport among the blind.
posted by Tako John @ 5:56 PM
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