Archery

From 70 meters away, Olympic archers use recurve bows to shoot at a target with a center about the size of a CD, battling not just opponents but the tremors in their own fingers. The "set system" turns every match into a high-pressure duel: win a set of two arrows, earn two points, and race to six. After a 72-arrow ranking round, single-elimination brackets and team events lead to a single "shoot-off" arrow where the silence before the scoreboard flashes is the loudest sound in sports.