After being searched to enter the area, people on the Vieux-Port in Marseille can buy the official Paris 2024 Olympic Games pocket knife https://twitter.com/AlertesInfos/status/1788294632394133917
You're viewing a single comment thread. View all comments, or full comment thread.
Comments (17)
sorted by:
Wrong season. They do have normal shooting events in the summer games, though. And a pistol shooting component of the "modern" pentathlon.
I read somewhere that they had replaced the pistols in modern pentathlon with laser guns.
Modern pentathlon is one of the few Olympic sports I care about, but I want them to go back to real pistols, darn it!
Let each country use whatever their current military sidearm is.
I am admittedly ignorant of the finer mechanics of competition shooting, but how well does the laser pistol simulate, for example, recoil? It seems like there are important aspects of the shooting part of shooting that would be lost with a laser.
Edit: I'm assuming here that with a pistol shot distance, things like the laser traveling in a straight line vs. the arc of a bullet are negligible, but I could be wrong about that and maybe it's even sillier than I think.
Yea, whatever air pistols they used before at least should have a little recoil. If its a 9mm or standard military sidearm, that would be much more interesting and the recoil would be much much more. Pistol part looks pretty lame anyway. One handed firing with iron sights.
The shotgun clay challenges they no longer send 2 at a time. Hoping they don't laser that next.