The closure of Australias Ford factories has inspired reigning Supercars champion Mark Winterbottom to claim this weekends Bathurst 1000 title and provide the farewell Falcon deserves.Winterbottom said he hoped to honour the hundreds of workers at Fords manufacturing plants that will shut down this week by holding aloft the Peter Brock Trophy on Sunday.The Falcon brand will be retired after the Geelong and Broadmeadows factories in Victoria close on Friday.Winterbottoms Prodrive Racing team will continue to use Falcons next season but the 2013 Mount Panorama champion believed Sundays Great Race marked the end of an era.A lot of people have worked at the Ford plant up to 50 years, so it is emotional, Winterbottom told AAP.I know a lot of them are driving up and having a convoy, celebrating their time at Ford by going to Bathurst.It would be nice to send the Falcon out on the high it deserves.It would be huge for the workers more than anything.Winterbottom can revive his championship title defence with a second Bathurst triumph.He finished a disastrous 23rd with co-driver Dean Canto at the recent Sandown 500, relegating him to fifth in the driver standings.He is 340 points behind new series leader, Holdens Shane van Gisbergen.However, Winterbottom believed so much more was at stake on Sunday.Bathurst is all about bragging rights. 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RIO DE JANEIRO -- Ginny Thrasher went through a three-week whirlwind this past spring, winning three NCAA titles and a spot on the U.S. Olympic Shooting team.The 19-year-old closed out the summer with her biggest surprise yet.Keeping her nerve on sports biggest stage, Thrasher on Saturday earned the first gold medal of the Rio Olympics, outlasting two-time gold medalist Du Li to capture the womens 10-meter air rifle title.This is beyond my wildest dreams, Thrasher said. I knew it was a realistic expectation for me to get into the finals, and once you get into the finals, anything can happen. For me, this year has been incredible.Thrasher had a quick rise to the top.A figure skater growing up, she switched sports five years ago after a hunting trip with her family. Thrasher killed a deer with her first shot of her first hunting trip and has continued to hit the mark ever since.Thrasher was not expected to be among the top five scorers -- all that counts in NCAA competition -- at shooting powerhouse West Virginia, yet she got better as the season progressed. 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Yi went out after a 9.8 on her final shot to earn bronze and Thrasher finished with a cumulative score of 208.0 to beat Li by a point in front of a rowdy crowd.I heard the cheers and the horns, and it was very disturbing, Yi said. But I just had to control myself. I also looked up and saw that Virginia and Du Li were doing well themselves.Thrasher ended up on top of the podium, and her whirlwind will wind down soon; a biomedical engineering major, she resumes classes at West Virginia on Aug. 17.Im actually looking forward to getting back to school again, Thrasher said.She will have a new title when she returns: Olympic champion. Discount NFL Jerseys Cheap Stitched Jerseys Disocunt Football Jerseys Wholesale Jerseys China NFL Jerseys From China Wholesale Stitched Jerseys Cheap Jerseys Store ' ' '