Posted on 07/27/2021 11:02:37 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
“I do eat quite a bit of sugar right before I shoot,” she says.
Tucker is a 20-year-old American silver medalist here who has become one of the fastest rising stars in rifle shooting while breaking one of the sport’s biggest taboos. She hypes herself up on candy exactly when she’s not supposed to.
It isn’t especially difficult to understand why shooters abstain from caffeine and sugar when they compete. They’re vices that can make people jittery. That’s a potential disaster for people who need to handle a gun with pinpoint precision.
...“A typical rifle shooter would look at you and have a coronary,”
Tucker has the best reason possible not to cut it out. It’s one of the habits that has suddenly turned her into one of the best shooters on the planet.
...the military academy where she attended high school in Florida had a team that piqued her interest. The 16-year-old Tucker joined, and she remembers how good she was compared to her teammates. “I was the worst,” she says.
College shooting was the next boon to her career because it gave her 24/7 access to a range. She’d shoot, go to class, and shoot some more. It added up to about seven hours a day, six days a week, she says, enough to satiate her voracious appetite to practice.
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So was she disqualified for having gummi bears in her system.
—” disqualified for having gummi bears in her system”
Well, the Russians are not allowed to have a bear on their uniforms!
So no surprise.
She’s a college kid. Wonder how many Monster’s or Red Bull’s she knocks down in a day.
Who cares? She doesn’t. All that matters is, Can she shoot? Yes.
Gummi Bears are a bad idea. What if someone from another country decided to throw a few Haribo Sugar Free gummi bears in her bag?
If she has ADD, the sugar and coffee would calm her down, while maintaining an ability to hyper focus.
I do not care if she is smoking hot and competes naked. I am not going to watch the Olympics.
If someone slips her sugar-free Gummy Bears she’ll be out of the competition. (Check out Amazon reviews for the reason why).
As usual the USA is doing quite well in the shooting sports, as usual the Media is determinedly ignoring it.
Beat you by 9 minutes. See post 6.
yup
Great minds and all of that.
But she doesn’t have to pee like a race horse in the middle of competition like coffee will do.
The shooting events in the summer olympics never gets any tv coverage.
I do not care if she is smoking hot and competes naked. I am not going to watch the Olympics.
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If she was, I’ll bet your eyes would not be on the Olympics.
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