----- Original Message ----- A blind archer from South Korea has set the first world records at this year's
Olympic games. In the men's archery competition on Friday, Im Dong-Hyun scored 699 points with 72 arrows. This beats his own record of 696 set in May. He also teamed up with Kim Bub-min and Oh Jin-hyek to break another record: scoring 2,087 points with 216 arrows, which beat the previous record by 18 points. Im, 26, is blind in his left eye with 20/200 vision, while his right eye has 20/100 vision. As a result, he must be 10 times closer to see something than a person with 20/20 vision. He won gold medals at the 2004 and 2008 Olympics. But he's waiting before concentrating on adding to that collection for this year's games. "This is just the first round so I will not get too excited by it," he said. His coach, Jan Young-Sool, warned his team about complacency before medals. "We will have a day of rest now and prepare for tomorrow," said Jang. http://thecelebritycafe.com/feature/2012/07/blind-archer-sets-olympic-records ---------- To send a message to the list, send any message to blindza@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ---------- To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to blindza-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the subject line --- The 'homepage' for this list is at http://www.blindza.co.za
