Turkey’s Yusuf Dikec competes within the capturing 10m air pistol combined staff gold medal match through the Paris Olympics at Chateauroux Taking pictures Centre on July 30, 2024. (Photograph by Alain JOCARD / AFP)
CHATEAUROUX, France— Turkish pistol shooter Yusuf Dikec has gone viral on social media for his seemingly informal angle whereas capturing his approach to a silver medal on the Paris Olympics 2024.
Essentially the most-shared photos present Dikec capturing in a T-shirt with one hand in his pocket, a seemingly customary pair of glasses and an emotionless look on his face. He’s been likened to an everyday man competing on the Olympics, or perhaps a hitman.
The 51-year-old isn’t any newcomer, although. He’s competed at each Summer time Olympics since 2008.
Some memes distinction Dikec along with his Serbian opponent Damir Mikec, who was carrying a blinder over one eye, a lens over the opposite and a big pair of ear defenders.
Did Dikec win a medal?
He did, and it made historical past.
Dikec and Sevval Ilayda Tarhan received the silver medal in combined staff 10-meter air pistol capturing Tuesday. It was Turkey’s first-ever medal in Olympic capturing.
Mikec and Zorana Arunovic received gold for Serbia. The bronze went to India’s Manu Bhaker and Sarabjot Singh.
The Olympic #shootingsport stars we didn’t know we wanted.
🇰🇷 Kim Yeji 🤝 Yusuf Dikeç 🇹🇷 pic.twitter.com/gfkyGjFg4I
— The Olympic Video games (@Olympics) August 1, 2024
In contrast to Dikec, his teammate Tarhan was competing with massive ear defenders and a visor, in addition to braids within the purple and white colours of the Turkish flag. She was capturing with one hand in her pocket, too.
Dikec was thirteenth in his particular person occasion and is now finished on the Paris Olympics. He’s looking forward to the following Video games in 2028, although. “I hope subsequent in Los Angeles (for) a gold medal,” he stated Tuesday.
What does he take into consideration going viral?
Dikec appears to be embracing the pattern, reposting a video compilation of Turkish-language memes about him to his Instagram web page.
The capturing occasions have been held round three hours’ drive south of Paris. Dikec and Tarhan made the journey to the French capital Wednesday, the place they have been greeted with cheers on the Champions Park, an open-air venue the place medalists have fun with followers.
Why didn’t Dikec put on extra gear?
Shooters have some freedom about how they gown for competitors.
Many shooters on the Olympic vary in Chateauroux, central France, select to put on visors to cut back the glare of the lights or so-called blinders over one eye to get a greater focus for the attention which is wanting down the sights.
It’s not fairly true that Dikec wasn’t carrying any capturing gear. He had yellow earplugs to dam out distractions whereas he shot within the closing. They only weren’t seen from the angle of the picture which went viral.
Similar to Dikec, Chinese language rifle shooter Liu Yukun received a gold medal Thursday carrying earplugs however no blinder or visor.
Produce other shooters gone viral on the 2024 Olympics?
South Korea’s Kim Yeji receives a blast of air from a conveyable fan through the 10m air pistol girls’s qualification spherical on the 2024 Summer time Olympics, Saturday, July 27, 2024, in Chateauroux, France. (AP Photograph/Manish Swarup)
Sure, South Korean pistol shooter Kim Yeji’s assured demeanor and dramatic stance have introduced reward on social media for her “essential character vitality”.
“The Olympic #shootingsport stars we didn’t know we wanted,” the official Olympics account on X posted Thursday with photos of Kim and Dikec.
Kim received silver within the girls’s 10-meter air pistol occasion Sunday behind her South Korean teammate Oh Ye Jin. Kim and Oh are roommates and Kim stated she was happy Oh obtained the gold as a result of she sees her like a “youngest sibling”.
Kim is about to compete once more Friday in qualification for the ladies’s 25-meter pistol occasion.
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