American Thrasher wins first gold of Rio 2016

 

American teenager Virginia Thrasher won the first gold medal of the Olympic games rio 2016 on Saturday, holding her nerve against two Chinese Olympic champions to clinch the women's 10m air rifle event.

 

The 19-year-old American edged out China's Du Li, gold in Athens in 2004, with an Olympic-record score of 208. Defending Olympic champion Yi Siling, also of China, took the bronze medal.

 

Competing in her first Olympics, Thrasher, as the first champion of the 2016 Games, was awarded her medal by International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach and said the achievement was beyond her wildest dreams.

"About halfway through when I took the lead it kind of became clear to me that I was in contention for a medal, but I quickly pushed that thought away and focused on breathing and taking one shot at a time," Thrasher said.

 

Afterwards, she noted that she had not attended the Olympics' opening ceremony Friday night and had instead gone to bed early for her Olympic debut.

Rio Olympics 2016: Swimmer Adam Peaty

Rio Olympics 2016: Swimmer Adam Peaty into final after world record 

 

British swimmer Adam Peaty broke his own world record as he reached the 100m breaststroke final but there were no GB medals on day one of the Rio Olympics.

After a new best in the heats, Peaty qualified for Monday's final (02:53 BST) in the second-fastest time ever.
GB cyclists Chris Froome and Geraint Thomas both missed out on medals in a dramatic men's road race.
But British cyclist Lizzie Armitstead can make amends when she goes in the women's event on day two at 16:15 BST.
She was only cleared to compete 15 days before the Games began after appealing against a ban for missed drugs tests.
American shooter Ginny Thrasher 19 won the first gold of the Games, while two swimming golds helped Australia top the medal table.

    There was drama elsewhere with a stray military bullet landing in a media tent and police carrying out a controlled explosion on an unattended bag
                                                                                                                                                                     near the finish line of the men's cycling road race on Copacabana's sweeping boulevard.

Trump tipping point

Trump tipping point could be upon us: Column

Edwin Edwards, the flamboyant Louisiana politician who was investigated and indicted on multiple occasions, once boasted, “The only way I can lose this election is if I get caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy.” That was in 1983  the year he won the third of his four terms as governor.
Even if you didn’t like what Edwards had to say, you had to admire his willingness to offend media monitors and refined opinion. He was a little like Donald Trump with a career that defied the conventional rules of politics. Trump, like Edwards, routinely says and does things that should destroy his political prospects. He could be about to self destruct  — but we've said that many times before.
What is the secret of Trump's staying power? 
First, there is the authenticity defense. Trump is not a politician; he tells it like it is. He's authentic, and authentic people speak their mind and tweet from whatever portion of it happens to be awake and active in the middle of the night. You can't expect Trump to be politically (or factually) correct. This claim has had a remarkable currency in the 2016 election cycle.
Second, there is the sarcasm sanctuary. Trump didn't mean whatever ridiculous thing he said yesterday; he was just trying to be provocative or funny. Of course, if you are trying to be humorous, as Edwards often was, it helps to have an actual sense of humor. When there are no laughs, the sarcasm claim is hard to make and can only be used on a couple of occasions.
Third, and probably most important, there is the strategic use of innuendo and attribution. Trump didn’t say that Obama was a Muslim, he just thought there were

that needed to be explored. He didn’t actually know if Ted Cruz’s father was in league with Lee Harvey Oswald, he just wondered about that

Donald Trump

The establishment media is insisting today that Donald Trump asked dictator Vladimir Putin’s Russian hackers to break into Americans’ computers

But the plain text of Trump’s lengthy 10,000-word press conference today shows him repeatedly saying that the hackers — likely Russians — should release the emails they have already hacked from Hillary Clinton’s email server at the Department of State.

missing” — refers to emails that he thinks have already been hacked and stored away in some Russian server farm. 

Logically, Trump can’t be asking the Russian to hack emails tomorrow when they have already been hacked from sloppily protected U.S. So Trump’s media-magnified sentence — “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 e-mails that are computers, and then stashed away in a server in Siberia.

Trump also suggested that the Russians have already hacked emails from Obama’s Democratic National Committee.

When asked about the DNC emails, Trump repeatedly says Russia has likely already hacked emails from the DNC computers. According the transcript provided

But I watched this guy [Clinton campaign manager Robby] Mook and he talked aboutwe think it was Russia that hacked [the DNC computers]… assuming it’s Russia or China or one of the major countries and competitors, it’s a total sign of disrespect for our country … Why do I have to get involved with Putin? I have nothing to do with Putin. I’ve never spoken to him. I don’t know anything about him other than he will respect me …

When he was asked about Clinton’s missing 30,000 or 33,000 emails from her work at the Department of State, Trump repeatedly suggests that the Russians already hacked and stored the 30,000 taxpayer-owned emails.

Also, Clinton says her lawyers deleted those many emails, which means they are now literally impossible to hack in the future.  

So there’s no purpose or possibility of hacking already hacked (and deleted) emails. 

By the way, they hacked — they probably have her 33,000 e-mails. I hope they do. They probably have her 33,000 e-mails that she lost and deleted because you’d see some beauties there. So let’s see.

QUESTION: (inaudible) Putin (ph) say stay out? Why not say that?

TRUMP: Why do I have to (ph) get involved with Putin? I have nothing to do with Putin. I’ve never spoken to him. I don’t know anything about him other than he will respect me. He doesn’t respect our president. And if it is Russia — which it’s probably not, nobody knows who it is — but if it is Russia, it’s really bad for a different reason, because it shows how little respect they have for our country, when they would hack into a major party and get everything. But it would be interesting to see — I will tell you this — Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 e-mails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press. Let’s see if that happens. That’ll be next. Yes, sir…

So Trump accepts Clinton’s claim that the emails are deleted — and are thus impossible to hack.