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Olympic athletes will compete in Tokyo this year with PSE, Hoyt, and Samick bows, yet the most Olympic medals have been captured by athletes shooting Hoyt bows.
Its geometry prioritizes weight distribution. Near each end of the riser there is greater surface area and mass, which creates an unrivaled balance and improves stability. The riser also boosts accuracy by utilizing an engineering wonder Hoyt calls Dynamic Flex Control. Basically, the riser is designed to minimize flex throughout the shot cycle.
Finally, the Pro Series Dovetail Adjustment makes the limbs laterally adjustable, perfect for achieving the ultimate tune. Olympic archers use arrow rests that are different from most rests found on compound bows. Most athletes use an adjustable plunger, such as the AAE Micro Plunger , along with a very simple rest. There are bolt-on styles and stick-on styles.
Every single one of these archers will start with the ranking round. The archery events begin with men's and women's individual events in the ranking round on Day 0.
This ranking round determines the placements for all five of the competitions. In the ranking round, each archer shoots 72 arrows. Their scores will be tallied and each archer will be ranked from 1 to The men's and women's events at the Olympics both follow the same format. After being seeded according to the ranking round results, the archers enter the elimination rounds, where they are whittled down from 64 to 1. Men's and women's team events also follow this same format.
Each of the 12 teams include three players from the same nation, and each team is ranked according to the aggregate rankings of each of its members. Because of this three archers per team format, each nation may only send a maximum of six archers to the Olympics. Teams then enter a single-elimination competition starting with a round of The top four teams are given a bye straight to the quarterfinals. The 16 mixed archery teams include one male and one female archer each. They are formed by taking the highest-ranked male and female archers from each country and pairing them together.
The Tokyo Olympics are the first to feature this mixed team archery format. In the Olympic Games, all five of the archery events have the same distance between the archer and the target: 70 meters. The distance may vary in other competitions according to the size of the target, however in the Olympics both are kept constant. All of the Olympic targets that have a diameter of centimeters. With the distance, the size, and the equipment being the same for all archery events, what really changes is the gender of the athletes and the format of the event.
To begin, 64 athletes compete in a ranking round consisting of 72 arrows , shot in six sets of twelve. The athletes are ranked by score and seeded. Athletes then move on to a single-elimination tournament, with the winners advancing to the next phase.
This continues until a victor is decided.
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