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RIO DE JANEIRO -- Chinas bid for shooting gold came up short on the opening day of the Rio Olympics and was not looking good on Sundays day two after a two-time defending gold medalist failed to qualify.Zhang Mengxue gladly picked up the slack, continuing Chinas dominance in womens 10-meter air pistol.Zhang overcame some early jitters in the finals with some big scores on Sunday, earning Chinas fourth air pistol gold in the past five Games.I remember a coach told me once, the only person who could destroy me was myself, Zhang said through an interpreter. So I just did my utmost to be myself today.China has dominated the air rifle and pistol shooting events at the Olympics, earning nine gold medals since the 2000 Sydney Games.The Chinese came up short of gold the first day in Rio, finishing with a silver and a pair of bronze medals.Chinas bid for gold in womens air pistol seemed to take a big hit when Guo Wenjun, the two-time defending champion, struggled in qualifying and finished 30th.Zhang qualified sixth for the eight-person elimination finals and opened with three straight 9s with a field that seemed to struggle with nerves early. She steadied herself with a 10.8 on her fifth shot and took the lead after eight shots.Zhang stretched her lead as the competition continued and all but locked up gold with a perfect 10.9 in the penultimate round. She finished with 199.4 points in the 20-round final, putting her 2.3 ahead of Russias Vitalina Batsarashkina.Before the last shot, I knew I was in an advantage, but I wanted to concentrate, Zhang said. So I did my utmost on the last shot.All three medals went to first-time Olympians after Anna Korakaki captured bronze to become the first Greek woman to earn an Olympic medal in shooting.Im really excited that Im the first woman through all these years to win an Olympic medal, said Korakaki, who had 177.7 points through 18 rounds. Discount Jerseys USA . Howard Ganz, an MLB lawyer, said in a letter to U.S. District Judge Edgardo Ramos that Rodriguezs claims do not come "remotely close" to what is needed to overturn an arbitration decision in federal court. Discount Jerseys Custom . -- Jakob Silfverberg is making himself right at home with the Anaheim Ducks, scoring four goals in his first four games. https://www.discountjerseysonline.com/ . But now that hes in the NHL, the Calgary Flames centre showed big improvement in that department by scoring the winner in the eighth round of a 5-4 shootout victory over the Winnipeg Jets on Monday. Discount Jerseys For Sale . Q: Team Canada announces their Olympic roster three weeks from today. Who is general manager Steve Yzerman watching? LeBrun: Over the last 48 hours, hes taken in the home-and-home between the Dallas Stars and Colorado Avalanche with Jamie Benn and Matt Duchene being the obvious targets. Discount Jerseys Team . President of baseball operations Larry Beinfest was fired Friday after 12 years with the Marlins. The move came as the team neared the end of its third consecutive last-place season in the NL East. Sania Mirza and her Czech partner Barbora Strycova lost 1-6, 4-6 to Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Lucie Safarova in the womens doubles final of the Wuhan Open in China on Saturday.Sania and Strycova conceded an early lead after being broken in the opening game. They had a chance to make a comeback but wasted three break points in the fourth game. They were then broken again in the following game as their opponents went 4-1 up. At 5-1, they failed to hold serve yet again as Mattek-Sands (US) and Safarova (Czech Republic) took the first set 6-1.The Indo-Czech pair lost their serve in thee second game of the second set, but then won the following game.ddddddddddddHowever, Mattek-Sands and Safarova broke their serve once more in the fourth game to regain the lead.Sania and Strycova kept fighting till the end, breaking their opponents serve in the ninth game to make it 5-4. However, serving to stay in the match in the following game, they went down 0-40, conceding three match points to their opponents, who capitalized to clinch the title. ' ' '