Posted on 08/12/2016 2:20:44 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
In an all-Italian gold medal match, Diana Bacosi defeated compatriot Chiara Cainero to win the women’s skeet event.
U.S. shooter Kim Rhode, who won the bronze medal match, is the story of the finals, however.
Rhode became the first Summer Olympian to win six consecutive individual medals, a feat that had only been done by Italian luger Armin Zoeggeler.
After the semifinal, Rhode met fellow American Morgan Craft and China’s Wei Meng in a sudden death shoot off to see who’d advance bronze medal match. Craft, the 23-year-old No. 2-ranked skeet shooter in the world, was ultimately defeated.
In the bronze medal match, Rhode, 37, and Meng, 27, were tied at 15 apiece, and they headed to another sudden death shoot off. After trading hits and misses, Rhode won in the fourth round.
Rhode's first medal was a gold medal in double trap at the 1996 Atlanta Games. She then went on to win bronze in the event at the 2000 Sydney Games, before taking back her double trap gold at the 2004 Athens Games -- the last year of women's double trap at the Summer Olympics.
Rhode then decided to take on skeet shooting, and she won silver in the event at the 2008 Beijing Games. She took gold at the 2012 London Games, and today's bronze gives her the six straight podium finishes.
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And she’s blue eyed like the majority of great shooters.
I would love/hate to shoot with her.
I could learn some stuff/but I hate to lose.
**wanders back to the CMP rabble**
Coincidence? Probably not.
Wow.
Do they do sporting
Clays? Or is it just
Trap and
Skeet?
No sporting clays. Events include trap, double trap, skeet, rifle (.22LR), pistol (.22LR), air rifle and air pistol.
Damn, I love clays.
I’d like to see a summer version of biathlon.
Cross country marathon with a .22 on your back? I could see that. The PTB would never go for it.
I've heard of two, one only in print.
The real one involves archery and I forgot what replaces the skis.
The other one, only in "Doonesbury;" was Tanning and Golf. Zonker Harris was the entrant.
The PTB tolerate biathlon in the winter; it works pretty much the same way.
I'd do it too, even though I'd never be anywhere near 'world class'.
Cool. I'd go for that, too. Archery and mountain bike? That could be fun.
I'm thinking hoverboard and a grenade launcher.
You might like Modern Pentathlon, a sport invented specifically for the Olympics, I think, in the way-back.
It is meant to mimic the skills required by a military messenger of olden times.
Participants must fence with an epee, swim 200 meters, do show jumping on an unfamiliar horse, and run 3000 meters while stopping to shoot at 5 targets.
While not a wildly popular sport in the USA, it sounds like something I might have liked to try in my youth.
Team USA has never won gold, but we've gotten a few men's medals, most recently bronze in 1960. Women began competing in the Olympics in 2000, and USA won silver then, but none since.
In Rio, we'll be represented by one guy, and two women... who are sisters. I wish them luck!
Same here, I was a dedicated skeet shooter for a good number of years, but a clays range opened about 6 miles from me so I switched (the skeet range was 50 miles).
International Skeet is a much different animal than American. Sort of like FITASC with repeatable targets. The birds go 65 mph as opposed to 46. It's low gun with a 0-3 second random delay after the bird is called for, and the gun can't move until the target is visible. Shot charge is limited to 24 grams (7/8th ounce)
At 37, Kim is actually quite old to be competitive. But her practice routine keeps her in the game, when she transitioned from Doubles Trap to Skeet she shot 1200 rounds every day until she was dialed in. Good thing she's sponsored by Winchester, just pull up the semi-trailer of AA's.
Saw this coming. She is awesome, as is the rest of our USA Shooting Team. Viva Olympic Shooting!
Motorcycle and Tommygun. Use corrupt IOC officials and doping athletes or coaches for targets.
I’d hoped for a Gold, but there’s a real crop of good young shooters coming up.
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