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Indian 10m air rifle team clinches gold with world record score

The trio of Rudrankksh, Olympian Divyansh Singh Panwar and Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar aggregated 1893.7 in the qualification round to beat back the challenge of the shooting powerhouse China and South Korea on way to gold.

Indian men’s 10m air rifle team. Credit: X/@IndianTechGuide

A confident Indian 10m air rifle team led by teenage world champion Rudrankksh Patil gave the country its first gold medal at the Asian Games, securing the top place on the podium with a world record score here on Monday.

In one of the most dominating displays seen by Indian air rifle shooters in multi-discipline events, the 19-year-old Rudrankksh shot a superb 632.5, Tomar 631.6 and Panwar 629.6 to aggregate the world record score as South Korean was pushed to second spot (1890.1), while the Chinese team was a distant third with an aggregate score of 1888.2.

Rudrankksh and Aishwary also made it to the eight-shooter finals in the event and would be gunning for more glory after the qualification round.

In 10m air rifle shooting team event, the aggregate of the qualification scores decide the medallists, while the eight top shooters in the preliminary round move into the finals for individual glory.

Source: https://www.deccanherald.com/sports/other-sports/indian-mens-10m-air-rifle-team-clinches-first-gold-for-country-at-hangzhou-asian-games-2699400

Asian Games 2023 Live Updates Day 1: India win silver in shooting, rowing; IND bowl BAN out for 51 in women’s cricket SF

Asian Games 2023 Live updates Day 1: Follow live score and updates of all the action in Hangzhou as India officially begin their Asiad campaign

Asian Games 2023 Live Updates Day 1: India bag first medal in Asiad in women’s 10m air rifle(SAI)

Asian Games 2023 Live Updates Day 1: India won a medal with their first event of the day, as the trio of Ramita, Mehuli Ghosh, and Ashi Chouksey earned a silver medal in the women’s 10m air rifle event. Additionally, Ramita and Mehuli also qualified for the individual final, that ran parallelly with the team event in Hangzhou. Shortly after the first medal, army men Arjun Lal Jat and Arvind won a silver in men’s lightweight double sculls as well. India’s women’s cricket team takes on Bangladesh in the semi-final, while later in the day, boxing champion Nikhat Zareen will also kick off a rather difficult draw in China. Both the men’s and women’s football teams will also be in action in group matches later in the day.

Asian Games 2023 Live Updates Day 1: India bag first medal in Asiad in women’s 10m air rifle
Asian Games 2023 Live Updates Day 1: India bag first medal in Asiad in women’s 10m air rifle(SAI)
Events completed so far:

SILVER MEDAL: Shooting – India’s Ramita, Mehuli Ghosh and Chouksey in Women’s 10m Air Rifle (Team)

SILVER MEDAL: Rowing – India’s Arjun Lal Jat and Arvind in Men’s Lightweight Double Sculls

Rowing – India’s Kiran and Anshika Bharti finish 9th in Women’s Lightweight Double Sculls

Rowing: India’s Satnam Singh and Parminder Singh finish sixth in Men’s Doubles Sculls

Source: https://www.hindustantimes.com/sports/others/asian-games-2023-live-updates-day-1-india-vs-bangladesh-semifinal-cricket-shooting-nikhat-zareen-boxing-football-hockey-101695495946899.html

Gunman kills three people in ‘racially motivated’ shooting in Florida

Black people were targeted by a ‘white man in his early 20s’ in a store in Jacksonville.

A gun painted with swastikas. Pic: Action News Jax 2

Three black people have been killed in a “racially motivated” shooting in Florida.

Two men and one woman were shot dead in a Dollar General store in Jacksonville by a man in his early 20s in what the mayor has called a “hate-filled crime”.

Jacksonville’s sheriff said the suspect, an unidentified white man in his 20s, “targeted black people” in the shooting before killing himself.

“Plainly put, this shooting was racially motivated and he hated black people,” Sheriff T K Waters said at a news conference.

Sheriff Waters said the gunman used a Glock handgun and an AR-15 style rifle emblazoned with swastikas during his killing spree which occurred shortly before 2pm local time.

Residents talk with Jacksonville police officers near the scene. Pic: AP

The gunman reportedly left several manifestos littered with racial epithets detailing his hatred of black people.

Sheriff Waters added there was no indication that the attacker was part of a larger group.

He had driven from neighbouring Clay County and had sent his father a text message telling him to check his computer.

The father found the writings and the family called 911, but the shooting had already begun.

Earlier, Mayor Donna Deegan told WJXT “there are a number of fatalities” inside the store but did not give a precise number.

Numerous police officers were in the area near Edward Waters University, a small historically black university.

“This is unacceptable,” Ms Deegan told the station. “One shooting is too much but these mass shootings are really hard to take.”

Jacksonville City Council member Ju’Coby Pittman told the station the gunman is dead. She did not give further details.

“My heart is heavy. I am tired of all of the shootings,” she said.

Sherri Onks, the special agent in charge of the Jacksonville FBI office, said federal officials had opened a civil rights investigation and would pursue the incident as a hate crime.

“Hate crimes are always and will always remain a top priority for the FBI because they are not only an attack on a victim, they’re also meant to threaten and intimidate an entire community,” Ms Onks said.

Source:https://news.sky.com/story/three-people-killed-in-racially-motivated-shooting-in-florida-12948644

FBI shoots and kills man suspected of threatening Joe Biden

The suspect had allegedly made threats against other public figures including Kamala Harris and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

FBI agents have shot and killed a man suspected of threatening US President Joe Biden.

The agents were carrying out a search warrant in Provo, just south of Salt Lake City, Utah, when the shooting occurred at 6.15am local time on Wednesday (1.15pm UK time), federal officials said.

The president was scheduled to arrive in Utah just hours after the raid and shooting.

The suspect had allegedly made threats against public figures including Mr Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

The suspect has been identified as Craig Deleeuw Robertson.

He had allegedly posted online on Monday that he had heard Mr Biden was coming to Utah and he was planning to dig out a camouflage suit and “clean the dust off the m24 sniper rifle”.

Officers at Craig Deleeuw Robertson’s home in Provo, Utah. Pic: AP

The posts indicated he did appear to own a long-range sniper rifle and numerous other weapons, as well as camouflage gear known as a “ghillie suit”, investigators said in court records.

Robertson also referenced a “presidential assassination” and made other threats against US Attorney General Merrick Garland and New York Attorney General Letitia James, court documents state.

“The time is right for a presidential assassination or two. First Joe then Kamala!!!” authorities say Robertson wrote in a September 2022 Facebook post included in the filings.

In another post, Robertson refers to himself as a “MAGA Trumper”.

Source: https://news.sky.com/story/fbi-shoots-and-kills-man-suspected-of-threatening-joe-biden-12936952