[Sportsandrec] Legally blind South Korean archer

Mon Aug 6 17:07:23 UTC 2012

Good morning, Jodie,

Isn't this the saddest friggen thing you ever heard? a high partial 
needing to get so close, the his target  he can actually tongue kiss 
his target?
I would hate to imagine how close a real blind person would need to 
get, in order to even hit the side of a barn!  I dunno about you but 
my heart is bleeding!
  08:27 AM 8/6/2012, Sean Whalen wrote:
>Poor bastards with their sticks and blind dogs. If he's 20/100 in the better
>eye, is he even legally blind anyway?
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>Legally blind South Korean archer Im Dong-Hyun eyes gold medal at the Games
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>Friday, July 27, 2012 8:37 AM
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>London 2012 Olympics: legally blind South Korean archer Im Dong-Hyun eyes
>gold medal at the Games
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>He may not be able to read a newspaper at arms-length, being legally blind,
>but South Korean Im Dong-Hyun is one of the favourites in the individual
>archery gold medal at the London Games.
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>REUTERS
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>By Oliver Pickup
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>10:22AM BST 26 Jul 2012
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>The 26 year-old, who hails from Chungbuk, already has two Olympic gold
>medals to his name, having won the team event in Athens - aged only 18 - and
>Beijing four years ago.
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>It is a staggering feat when one considers that he has 20/200 vision in his
>left eye, meaning he needs to be 10 times closer to see an object than
>someone with perfect 20/20 vision.
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>His right eye, meanwhile, is not much better - he has 20/100 vision in that
>one - and yet he has no problem in hitting a 122cm target from 70 metres.
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>His emergence as one of the best archers in the world is remarkable,
>considering his distinct disadvantage - though Im is prickly when people
>take pity on him.
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>"I don't have a stick, I don't have a blind dog," he said after a practice
>session at Lord's, where the archery competition will take place, on
>Wednesday. "It's unpleasant when people say I'm disabled. All this interest
>in my sight is not welcome."
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>In addition to his Olympic medals he has a cabinet packed with other
>trophies, including four world titles and another four Asian Games golds.
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>Im says firing his pointed arrows at the board is much like an archer trying
>to pinpoint the fruit in a still life painting in which the colours have run
>after being left out in the rain.
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>"With my vision, when I look at the target, it looks as if different colour
>paints have been dropped in water," he continued.
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>"The boundaries are not that clear and the lines between the colours are
>very blurred."
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>The archer has dismissed the notion of wearing glasses or undergoing eye
>surgery, and instead prefers to rely on "feel" and his ability to pick out
>the bright colours.
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>"I've practised using glasses before but actually it makes me feel less
>comfortable when I shoot," he said.
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>"When I look down the range at the target all I can do is try to distinguish
>between the different colours. If I couldn't see the colours, now that would
>be a problem."
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>One colour he does not have trouble picking out is gold, and he added: "This
>is my third attempt at getting the individual medal and if I'm lucky I'll do
>it."
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>Blind South Korean sets world marks
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>July 27, 2012, 7:04 AM ET
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>Associated Press
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>LONDON -- A legally blind archer has helped South Korea set the first world
>records of the Olympics.
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>Im Dong-hyun broke the 72-arrow mark with 699 points in men's archery.
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>He also took part in the team shoot Friday, teaming with Kim Bub-min and Oh
>Jin-hyek. They broke the world record, scoring 2,087 points with 216 arrows.
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>Barbara
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