Rhode makes Olympic history with gold medal

NBC Sports ^ | Jul 29, 9:45a ET

[reefdiver]

LONDON (AP) — Kim Rhode won the gold medal in women's skeet shooting Sunday, making her the first American to take an individual-sport medal in five consecutive Olympics.

[GnL]

How many innocent clay pigeons had to die for her to win her gold medal?

[BwanaNdege]

“How many innocent clay pigeons had to die...”

Ha!

Everyone thought they were so innocent and pure, but you forget, they still had feet of clay...

(Oooo, that was bad! I will go away and hang my head in shame...)

[Talisker]

Note to future burglers: do NOT break into Kim Rhode’s house.

[Tijeras_Slim]

An amazing feat, especially since she switched to skeet after women’s doubles trap was dropped from the Olympics. Two very different games. Plus Olympic skeet is much more demanding than “American” skeet.

She shot 500-1000 targets a day, every day, for a year to hone her skills.

[Texas Mulerider]

Save the skeets!

Preserve skeet habitat.

[hoosiermama]

My mom was an Ace shot on college team..Never picked up the sport myself. BUT my son's first shots with a BB gun took the head off the rooster on the copula's weather-vane. He's discovered the sport as an adult. Shame on me for not encouraging his talent.

[mosaicwolf]

Oh yea! Nothing better than the smell of female pheromones and gun powder!

[mosaicwolf]

Oh yea! Nothing better than the smell of female pheromones and gun powder!

[lack-of-trust]

She was 17 or 18 when she won her first olympic gold.

I have always been a little irritated that the media ignored her accomplishments.

[conservaterian]

I have yet to find a good recipe for skeet, anyone have any? Still tastes better than coot or scoters though.

[rabidralph]

Somewhere in London, LoLo Jones is smiling.

[TomGuy]

I have yet to find a good recipe for skeet, anyone have any?

You gotta boil 'em a long, long time. Even then, they still taste kinda chalky.

[Truth29]

When does Obama start apologizing? The Americans win in a shooting sport.

[razorback-bert]

Never mind cooking, how do you clean ‘em?

[Carry_Okie]

[Leep]

“How many innocent clay pigeons had to die...?”

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They were probably Chinese clay pigeons so its ok.

[CitizenM]

Can’t anyone say...Hooray for her!!!!

[Leep]

I have yet to find a good recipe for skeet, anyone have any?

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Marinade in soy sauce and olive oil for 2 years. Than slow cook for 2 weeks in a cock pot.
Let me know what you think...if you live.

[Leep]

they still taste kinda chalky.

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I think they taste kind of like chicken made from chalk.:)
I can’t stop.

Anyhow Hooray for Kim Rhodes!
BTW It probably wouldn’t hurt Romney if he would hang out with her for the day.

[Redcloak]

I hear that the President has already called to congratulate her. Here’s a rush transcript of the conversation: “You didn’t do that! You may be thinkin’ ‘I worked harder than everyone else’ but there are lots of hard workin’ Olympians out there. You didn’t do that.”

[Redcloak]

I have always been a little irritated that the media ignored her accomplishments.

That's because guns are icky.

[staytrue]

If Palin had decided to enter this event, she would have won easily. (/sarcasm)

[staytrue]

If Palin had decided to enter this event, she would have won easily. (/sarcasm)

[cruise_missile]

Medals are made in China.

[Sidebar Moderator]

PULL !......:o)

Congratulations Kim !

[Fightin Whitey]

All METALS are made in China, aren’t they? They certainly can’t be made here. We’re not allowed to scar the Earff here in ‘Murica.

[Elsiejay]

Commercial TV Networks in the U.S.A. have not ever reported Olympic firearms sport results, as such. Firearm proficiency as part of a combined event (i.e., triathlon) has been reported, albeit likely with a twinge of pain.

[Elsiejay]

Commercial TV Networks in the U.S.A. have not ever reported Olympic firearms sport results, as such. Firearm proficiency as part of a combined event (i.e., triathlon) has been reported, albeit likely with a twinge of pain.

[dfwgator]

I'm disappointed they haven't made Skeet Surfing an official Olympic Sport, yet.

[RightOnline]

"That's because guns are icky."

I'm not entirely sure why, but that made me literally LOL. :)

[cherokee1]

——All of them. Even the ones she misses still commit suicide because they don’t know how to land.

Jeb Clampet, Beverly Hillbillies guy, had a recipe for skeets, as I recall.

[zot]

How many innocent clay pigeons had to die for her to win her gold medal?

99 out of 100.

[aruanan]

99 out of 100.

Actually, all 100. She just didn't hit one of them.

[Loyal Sedition]

“attack..... brought on the most casualties in American history”

Ah, NO, not true, Pearl Harbor, civil war battles, 911, I would include the massacres enabled by Fast & Furious in that tally, among others.

The oh so sensitive author of this tripe is a twit.

[OCCASparky]

I thought about that, and then as I typed from my naugahyde sofa, I also pondered how many poor innocent naughas had to die to make this sofa...and being the “evil Freeper I am”, I just laughed, and laughed, and laughed....

[Vanders9]

Perhaps you could use them to cure heartburn and indigestion

[Krankor]

Save the skeets! Preserve skeet habitat.

Heck no! My two favorite pastimes are hunting snipe and skeet. I love snipe stew with just a dash of paprika. And my all time favorite meal is lobster Thermidor au Crevette with a Mornay sauce served in a Provencale manner with shallots and aubergines garnished with truffle pate, brandy and with a fried egg on top and skeet.

[Texas Mulerider]

I confess to having hunted skeet myself this past weekend. But I did it responsibly: I left the hens alone.