Leading Australian marksman James Willett cut a dejected figure in the Chateauroux sunshine after misfiring badly in his bid to fire his way to an Olympic medal.
On a baking Tuesday afternoon at the Olympic range, 260km distant from Paris, the 28-year-old quickly wilted early in the six-man final, missing three of his first six clays, and being the first to be eliminated.
His sixth-place finish would have been a huge disappointment for the man from Yarrawonga on the Murray River as he had qualified in brilliant fashion in the morning, missing just two of his 125 targets altogether to rank him the third-best in the field.
