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 ...
I think you'd probably solve the problem of small crowd sizes, too.
what’s this revisionist bs?
Phelps won 8 gold medals in Being(2008)
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?
I want a piece of the internet action.
On YouTube, we’ll be legends.
Maybe the word “consecutive” has something to do with this.
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Shooting is usually 1 event per games, over 6 games. So rethink your comment.
Not such a bad idea! Funny, as well.
With a better writer it would have said
medaled in six straight Olympics.
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
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.
Me too and every which way including double clays.
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