rio de janeiro naib subedar jitu rai would like to forget his day out at the deodora park shooting range on saturday afternoon in a hurry may be he would notthe army man making his olympics debut in an event he is ranked third in struggled to make his pistol listen to his command it was like a young trainer trying to tame a wild horse at least in the qualification round he kept missing the high 10s and was trailing in 14th place midway through the round qualification looking like a distant dream in mens 10m air pistol eventjitu then recovered found his groove shot an array of inner 10s and finally qualified in the sixth place above homefavourite felipe almeida wu it all seemed to have come together however the onehour break before the finals somehow disturbed his rhythm he returned to the range looking tense probably a bit too eager to make it count the scores didnt add up the way he wanted them to his mind had deceitfully walked out of the zone the pistol had gone cold0038olympic toi promoin the playoff to stay alive jitu crashed out against vladimir gontcharov of russia finishing last among the 8 finalists he could manage a best of just 102 he stepped away from the station his face revealing nothing and sat down quietly in a corner next to his coach no words were exchanged there was nothing to sayinside jitu would be seething at having let this opportunity slip away and would like to make amends in his pet 50m air pistol later in the weekvietnamese makes historywhile jitu suffered a mini melt down 41yearold hoang xuan vieh created history by becoming the first vietnamese to win an olympic gold he had qualified in fourth spot for the finals the experienced military man from vietnam hit a purple patch to pull away from his rivals but his win came after some thrilling drama in the final three series he was leading second placed wu by 25 points after six rounds and it all looked settled in his favour however vieh suddenly came under pressure and slipped badly before recovering in time