Although no medals will be awarded until today, the women’s soccer tournament started on Wednesday, and yesterday South Korean archers set the first world records of the Games, the Reuters News Agency reported yesterday..
Their three-man team totalled 2,087 points at Lord’s Cricket Ground as Im Dong-hyun, who suffers from severe myopia and just aims at “a blob of yellow colour”, broke his own 72-arrow world record with a score of 699 out of a possible 720.
The Games’ first medals will be