BBC Sport - Pentathlon - Pentathlon switches to laser guns for London 2012 Games - http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2...
Aug 25, 2010
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WTF? Might as well have them do all the running events on a treadmill, too. For that matter, let's just have them all play Wii Sports.
- Brian Chang
Just because they are switching to laser guns doesn't mean it's going to be any easier.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
No. Ridiculous
- ωαřмaiden ❤Bassetmom❤
I'm sure there are ways of ratcheting up the difficulty, but by using a light beam instead of a projectile, they're basically cutting out a large chunk of key marksmanship skills: trigger control, compensating for bullet drop and wind effects, adjusting to recoil (what little was left with air guns to begin with), reloading (swap battery packs? shoot off-screen?). Why even bother to pretend that it's the same thing?
- Brian Chang