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Asif 7pts too far

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Asif 7pts too far
Commonwealth Games gold medallist Asif Hossain Khan wanted to improve on his personal best when he lined up
with the best at the Marco Polo Shooting Range in the men's 10m air rifle at the Athens Olympic Games yesterday.
But the Bangladeshi shooter, also a SAF gold winner, failed to fulfil his dream. Asif, the first of the four Bangladeshi athletes participating at the Games to go into action, crashed
out in the 60-shot qualification round with a score of 587.
It was also the first time any Bangladeshi has competed in any Olympic Games shooting competition.
The 16-year-old from Pabna, who won gold in this event at the Manchester Commonwealth Games in 2002 and the SAF Games gold medal earlier this year in Pakistan, finished 35th among 47 competitors.
Asif's scores in his pet event were 99, 98, 96, 97, 98 and 99, which is three points shy of his best of 590 in Manchester.
The young prodigy set out on crossing the qualification barrier, which was a bridge too far for him. The
eighth lowest qualifier for the gold medal battle was 594.
Asif, who trained in Germany ahead of the Olympics, had admitted before the trip that he had very little chance to go beyond his best after adopting new technique. Still, as a debutant Asif could feel he at lest tried his best and will learn from his experience.
The shooter now has a chance to improve his marksmanship thanks to a four-year special training abroad before the next Olympiad in Beijing.
While Asif's performance was below his expectations, his Indian rival Abhinav Bindra preserved his
best during the qualification but faltered when it mattered most.
Abinav, who lost to Asif in Manchester, scored a superb 597 points and entered in the eight-man final as the third best qualifier. But he could not keep his cool and eventually finished seventh.
The 10m air rifle gold went to Chinese marksman Zhu Qinan. Zhu set a new world mark of 702.7 points (599 in qualification including five 100s) to finish ahead of compatriot Li Jie in silver and Slovakia's Jozef Gonci, bronze.
The 19-year-old's overall total surpassed the previous best of 702.5 set by Jason Parker of the United States in June 2003. Parker finished eighth with 694.5 points.
It was China's third gold medal in the shooting competition.