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Athletic competition athlete wins gold piece wearing Ciri's Witcher medallion

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An Olympic jock won a gold medal at the summer games patc effortful a Witcher medallion roughly her neck.

Russian jock Vitalina Batsarashkina, who competes in the 10m air pistol event, was spotted wearing the necklace while competing, equally well as in post-event interviews. IT's also not the first time she's been seen representing the fancy franchise - as tainted by Kotaku during the Rio de Janeiro Olympics in 2016, Batsarashkina wore both a Witcher medallion and Witcher-themed shooting goggles as she claimed the silver medal.

Even so, while she was repping Geralt's School of the Wolf during the 2016 event, her allegiances seem to induce changed over the historic a few eld. Eagle-blue-eyed fans have spotty that the recently medallion is that of the School of the Cat, a school more closely associated with Ciri than the Arctic wolf himself. Given that she's managed to come through gold this time around, it looks as though the change has cashed bump off.

In Andrezj Sapkowski's fantasise novels, Ciri claims her medallion from the corpse of a bounty Hunter that she killed. It's fitting, too, As the feline train not only has a historical partnership with the School of the Wolf, only is one of the few Witcher schools to take on young-bearing students, making it a perfect - if fairly accidental - choice by Ciri.

Fans and developers likewise have been celebrating Batsarashkina's success, which came every bit a result of her winning score of 390, just above fellow Russian Ekaterina Korshunova, who took the silver, and Greece's Anna Korakaki, who claimed bronze. Radek Grabowski, lead PR manager at developer CD Projekt Red, pointed kayoed Batsarashkina's medallion along Twitter, noting her "years-long allegiance to the Witcher universe" in a follow-high content.

Fans of The Witcher will accept more to search forward to than some Olympic cameos this twelvemonth. Feature-length aliveness The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf, which focuses on Geralt's teacher, Vesemir, is set to arrive on Netflix on August 23, while The Witcher Flavour 2 launches in December. When it comes to games, there's still no Book on The Witcher 4, but developer CD Projekt says it'll be functional on two parallel projects from next year, which could be good word for fans of Geralt and company.

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