China has won the first gold medal of the Paris Olympics
South Korea's Keum Jihyeon is instructed by her coach as she competes for the gold medal in the 10m air rifle mixed team medal round at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Saturday, July 27, 2024, in Chateauroux, France. , but its athletes were nowhere near Paris.
Huang and Sheng opened up an early four-point lead against South Korea’s Keum Jihyeon and Park Hajun in the head-to-head for the gold medal and stayed ahead from there to win 16-12. The 17-year-old Huang and 19-year-old Sheng's celebrations were initially subdued — in contrast to their animated coach — but they smiled and Sheng gave a thumbs-up sign on the podium when bronze medalist Islam Satpayev took a selfie with his fellow medalists.
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