1.   Art historians think that Mayor may well have solved the puzzle of the Corinthian vase depicting Heracles shooting arrows at the head of the monster of the Troy legend.

2.   No one had to pull strings, network like crazy or call in markers, because doing so would have been like shooting arrows into the air.

3.   Shane Parker, the former schoolteacher who had edged Johnson at the trials, had been kicked off the team for shooting two extra arrows in the opening round.

4.   Last year, South Korean archers trained for the Sydney Olympics by shooting arrows in front of thousands of spectators at a baseball park in Seoul.