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Kim Rhode wins sixth consecutive medal, makes history
NBC ^ | 8/12/2016 | Matthew Micali

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcolympics.com ...


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To: NorthMountain
I like it. Make the doubles event use a sidecar with a mounted .50 machine gun - driver and gunner switch places at the halfway point. Bomb inside with a timer so they won't be tempted to slow down. You want an elimination event, this is an elimination event!

I think you'd probably solve the problem of small crowd sizes, too.

21 posted on 08/12/2016 4:14:04 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Tijeras_Slim

what’s this revisionist bs?

Phelps won 8 gold medals in Being(2008)


22 posted on 08/12/2016 5:12:09 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: NorthMountain

No. Only because I can’t shoot a bow. Can I have my little brother stand in, and I’ll ride around on my mountain bike?


23 posted on 08/12/2016 5:19:51 PM PDT by West Texas Chuck (EAT THE YOUNG! 100 million guppies can't be wrong.)
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To: Billthedrill

I want a piece of the internet action.

On YouTube, we’ll be legends.


24 posted on 08/12/2016 5:20:46 PM PDT by West Texas Chuck (EAT THE YOUNG! 100 million guppies can't be wrong.)
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To: Tijeras_Slim
Chiara Caneiro


25 posted on 08/12/2016 6:03:58 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Mollypitcher1

26 posted on 08/12/2016 6:05:16 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: sten

Maybe the word “consecutive” has something to do with this.

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27 posted on 08/12/2016 6:09:18 PM PDT by Mears
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To: sten

Shooting is usually 1 event per games, over 6 games. So rethink your comment.


28 posted on 08/12/2016 6:16:54 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: NorthMountain
Archery and mountain bike for (Summer Biathon) That could be fun.

Not such a bad idea! Funny, as well.

29 posted on 08/12/2016 6:45:09 PM PDT by Ace's Dad (Happiness is command of a battery of ballistic missile interceptors! DTOM)
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To: sten

With a better writer it would have said
medaled in six straight Olympics.


30 posted on 08/12/2016 8:14:45 PM PDT by Rockpile (GOP legislators-----caviar eating surrender monkeys.)
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To: sten

Might want to reread.

It says she has won a medal in 6 Olympic games. 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2016. Only Summer Olympian to do so along with 1 luger in the Winter games


31 posted on 08/12/2016 10:56:36 PM PDT by CARDINALRULES (Tough times never last -Tough people do. DK57 --RIP 6-22-02)
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To: BenLurkin

It’s a fact that the majority of great shooters are blue eyed. Blue eyes are more sensitive to light so fast reactions are more likely according to the experts.


32 posted on 08/13/2016 1:54:59 AM PDT by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: AFreeBird

Me too and every which way including double clays.


33 posted on 08/13/2016 1:57:38 AM PDT by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: NorthMountain
Never mind the physical training, the equipment will cost ya a few cups of coffee.


34 posted on 08/13/2016 3:11:29 AM PDT by Daffynition (*Russia, if you are listening* ..... proof the left has *NO* sense of humor.)
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