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Olympic Shooter Wins Over The Internet After She Breaks World Record In Coolest Way
"This girl is a movie character like how is she real," a social media user said of South Korea's Kim Yeji.
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By Elyse Wanshel


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Watch your back, John Wick.
It seems the 2024 Paris Olympics now has a main character, and it's Kim Yeji — a 31-year-old South Korean sharpshooter who exudes the nonchalant "aura" of a cyberpunk assassin.

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Kim Yeji of Team Republic of Korea shoots during the women's 10-meter air pistol final Sunday at the Paris Olympics.
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The first-time Olympian won the silver medal at the women's 10-meter air pistol event on Sunday, but it was a clip from her previous appearance at the International Shooting Sport Federation World Cup in May that has made her social media's latest obsession.

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A closer look at Kim Yeji's cool shooting glasses.
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In a clip making the rounds on social media, Kim is decked out in a backward baseball cap and an IDGAF attitude as she casually shoots the target with her free hand tucked into her pocket. She then flips up a single lens of her futuristic-looking shooting glasses to check her score, barely flinching when it's announced she just broke the world record in the 25-meter air pistol event.


To make the situation even more badass, when Kim was asked by reporters after the event if she thinks she can improve anything in her shooting, she reportedly responded with: "There is nothing to improve."
Naturally, many on the internet were instantly enamored.


 
the Huffpost actually said something positive about a shooter? Did hell just freeze over? :rolleyes:


didn't click, just noticed the linked source
 
Pretty cool a liberal rag like huffpo made an article about a shooting event.

And the shooter does have some fun style.
"There is nothing to improve" is a fairly confident but cool line.
 
Sure…. let's do 500 rounds of full-load .357 rounds from a bone stock 4" SP101 at 25m…. her dainty little wrists would snap off her little 85-lbs Korean lady-body after 50 rounds.


My wrist will break after 200 rounds. ;) :D
I dated a Korean woman, 100 lbs soaking wet. Incredibly strong. She regularly went shooting with me. 40 S&W, 7 Mag and trap.
First time she shot a 12ga, her stance wasn't right, knocked her on her bubblegum.
 
Guessing they were OK with running the story because (a) it didn't involve "real" guns, (b) it was an Olympic sporting event, and (c) it featured a female athlete. That notwithstanding, I am definitely glad to see a positive piece about shooting sports from HuffPo - that almost never happens. Just wish the journalist would have provided a little more information in the article. The average reader has no idea what those competition guns are, how they work, what they cost, how the competition is scored, what the shooting glasses are for, how that sport has evolved over time... So many opportunities missed.
 
Blah blah blah. If it had been a white, American male accomplishing this, the article (if it was even written) would've read VERY differently. Probably would've been titled "America's toxic love affair with firearms leads to Olympic win. But is it really a win?"… or some crapola like that…
 

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