Stat Of The Week: A Lawyer’s Olympic Win
And some thoughts on his career.
The landlocked country of San Marino recently secured some historic Olympic wins, taking home its first-ever medals this year with a major boost from its legal community.
As Cosmos noted, San Marino’s pair of shooting medals ranked it first in the world in medals per capita for these games, with 66.6 medals per 1 million people as of Aug. 3. (The U.S., by contrast, had about 25 medals per 100 million people as of this date.)
Wrestler Myles Amine upped San Marino’s per-capita count even further on Thursday, taking bronze in men’s freestyle.
The country’s inaugural medal was also a bronze, won by the trap shooter Alessandra Perilli. She was then joined by Gian Marco Berti — a lawyer who is not a professional shooter — for the first-ever mixed-team version of the event, and that pair took home a silver.
After his big win, Berti laid out a familiar scenario, according to Reuters.
“Being a professional shooter would not allow me to earn money to live a good life,” he said. “So first of all I’m a lawyer, and then in the spare time I am a professional shooter.”
He also isn’t expecting a hero’s welcome — at least from his peers.
“Lawyers are jealous people,” he quipped to reporters, “so they will probably not say anything about it.”
The Cosmos Big Olympic Quiz [Cosmos]
San Marino shooter to remain full-time lawyer despite Tokyo silver [Reuters]
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