Lebanese shooter hoping to raise spirits back home with Tokyo success
Issued on: Bassil is hoping to become Lebanon s first Olympic medallist since 1980 JOSEPH EID AFP 4 min
Safra (Lebanon) (AFP)
Lebanon s trap shooter Ray Bassil says she is off to the Tokyo Olympics on a mission to win a medal and spread a little joy among Lebanese struggling amid economic crisis.
All hopes are pinned on the 32-year-old athlete in the Mediterranean nation, which has not brought home a medal in decades since a bronze in Greco-Roman wrestling in Moscow in 1980.
At a practice range north of the capital Beirut, she took aim with her shotgun, focused, and waited for the clay plate to be flung across the sky.
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