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By: Michael Bachner - June 21, 2021
Israel will send an archer to the Olympics for the first time ever, as athlete Itay Shanny qualified on Monday for the Tokyo 2020 games, with a stellar performance in the final qualifying tournament held in Paris.
“I’m still trying to process this whole thing,” Shanny told The Times of Israel after the tournament. “This is something I’ve worked on for years and reaching this point is unreal. It’s a great feeling. I managed to shake off the nerves and was focused and precise, like in another world.”
In the sport, contestants shoot arrows at a target 70 meters (some 230 feet) away using a recurve bow.
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