Kim Rhode is not your typical Olympian
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"In overlapped trap, you start with the gun
mounted," she said, digging into a plate of appetizers in an Italian trattoria across the street from Madison Ethical Garden. "In skeet, you start with gun at your hip, you can't move until the bird's in the air, and then you mount. The gun mount from hip to shoulder is 90 percent of the game. Practicing the new gun mount chafed the coat on her face raw and made her fingers bleed. I can't really say that I'm upset about it. ". As the old Broadway song goes, Rhode has been doing anything you can do advantage on ranges around the world since the 1996 Atlanta Games, when she won a gold medal in her Olympic debut as a 17-year-old... "To say my go abroad wasn't recognized, it does make you sad to say that, but at the same time I know it wasn't intentional or out of spite. When the International Olympic Board eliminated double trap for women after the Athens Games, Rhode switched to skeet, a childhood intended, and won a silver medal in 2008 in Beijing. When you're tired or jet-lagged, you may not get it to the exact spot where you need to. You have to swing with the butt, so you're not only lifting but driving with a target that's going about 65 miles per hour. "I have come to recognize that the Olympics are about more than the medals or what you've done, it's about the bigger duplicate of the journey," Rhode said during a recent interview in New York. All the calluses Rhode had developed from years of copy trap training did her no good.
Source: ESPN