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Olympic shooting is just a different beast. Look at the differences in scores; it's fractions of a point, in most cases. Air guns simply aren't popular in the US, while they're one of the very few options open to most people outside of the US. And, TBH, there's not a lot of support for the Olympic shooting sports in the US, aside from possibly trap.
They use conventional guns as well. But they are specially designed for shooting sports.
https://www.nbcolympics.com/news/shooting-101-olympic-equipment
If nothing else, you can't destroy a clay pigeon in skeet shooting with an air gun.
The "conventional" guns aren't conventional by any normal definition. I suspect that the air rifles are slightly more accurate than the .22 rifles, because it's really hard to get perfectly consistent .22 ammunition. I've known a few people that did that kind of target shooting--I think they were all Finns?--and holy hell, they're really particular about controlling for every possible variable.
Trap uses very normal shotguns, aside from being extraordinarily, exquisitely made; the over-under shotguns are works of art.
I don't think most Americans even know there are other guns beside the AR15 lol...
Christ I'm so glad I dodged that gun nut culture. I was very close to falling down that rabbit-hole in younger years.
Edit: Oof, must've pissed off some RWNJs.