LONDON (Reuters) - The United States Olympic shooting team distanced themselves on Thursday from the Colorado killings at a movie premiere last week, complaining their sport was the victim of sweeping generalisation.
In their first news conference since arriving in London for the Games, the team were inevitably asked about their thoughts on the shootings where 12 people were killed and 58 wounded after a gunman opened fire at a screening of the latest Batman movie in the Denver suburb of Aurora last week.
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