Britain’s Olympic skeet silver medallist Amber Rutter drew praise for the sporting way she reacted to Olympic officials robbing her of gold.
Amber won a silver in skeet in a shoot-off with Chile’s Francisca Crovetto Chadid. With the scores level, she was denied the chance of a gold medal after the referee said she’d missed one of the clays. Footage clearly shows she clipped the target, as you can see from this still, taken from a video of the play-off. There’s a large orange segment that broke off the first clay. Despite appealing to a referee to reverse the decision and allow the shot, the referees registered is as a miss. Chadid then hit both of her remaining clays to claim the Olympic title.
Peter Wilson, who won Olympic shooting gold in double trap for Team GB in 2012, believes it’s time for shooting to follow the lead set by other sports.
Amber did tell her family not to come and watch her, because she was worried they would add to the pressure on her. After the final, she turned around and there was her husband and new baby. She ran over and hugged little Tommy.
