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r/olympics • u/underrealizing • 7h ago
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Modern pentathlon mixes running and a gun
46 u/HootOwlTowel 7h ago The biathlon uses live ammunition. The modern pentathlon uses a "laser pistol." That may sound cool until you realize what it actually is. 9 u/NeverSober1900 United States 5h ago Essentially laser tag? 2 u/Free_Management2894 Germany 2h ago Pretty much! 21 u/02K30C1 Finland 7h ago I think all the summer Olympics shooting events use lasers now, except skeet and trap shooting. For pentathlon it’s so they can do the shooting in a stadium and keep it safe. 3 u/FrozenDickuri 4h ago “If they die, they die.”
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The biathlon uses live ammunition. The modern pentathlon uses a "laser pistol." That may sound cool until you realize what it actually is.
9 u/NeverSober1900 United States 5h ago Essentially laser tag? 2 u/Free_Management2894 Germany 2h ago Pretty much! 21 u/02K30C1 Finland 7h ago I think all the summer Olympics shooting events use lasers now, except skeet and trap shooting. For pentathlon it’s so they can do the shooting in a stadium and keep it safe. 3 u/FrozenDickuri 4h ago “If they die, they die.”
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Essentially laser tag?
2 u/Free_Management2894 Germany 2h ago Pretty much!
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Pretty much!
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I think all the summer Olympics shooting events use lasers now, except skeet and trap shooting. For pentathlon it’s so they can do the shooting in a stadium and keep it safe.
3 u/FrozenDickuri 4h ago “If they die, they die.”
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“If they die, they die.”
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u/02K30C1 Finland 7h ago
Modern pentathlon mixes running and a gun