(ATR) Over 100 archers from around the world took to the Sambadrome to test the 2016 Olympic venue.
The event featured individual and team competition for men's and women's recurve over eight days of shooting.
Now World Archery and Rio 2016 organizers will deliberate on the best course of action to ready the venue for next year's Olympic competition. The athletes participating will have an opportunity to give organizers feedback to help with the process.
Three areas that will be focused on is the potential for background noise from the nearby freeways affecting competition, the overall configuration of the shooting platforms, and putting flags around the venue so that archers can see wind conditions in the Sambadrome better.
"I have never shot at this kind of environment at the Sambadrome. It was a very good opportunity," Bo Chan Ku, a Korean archer, told Around the Rings.
Fellow archer from Columbia Andres Pila said that he relished his first ever Olympic test event and it was "pretty cool compete in these conditions."
A video showing the week's competition can be seen here:
Written by Aaron Bauer
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