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Article: Olympic Gold Medal Shooters Started Young
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- Boys' Life
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- October 1, 2005
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Rhode, Emmons share insights on shooting
Kim Rhode and Matt Emmons are opposite sexes, grew up on opposite coasts and specialize in different shooting disciplines. Despite the obvious differences, the two have something very special in common: gold medals won in shooting at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games.
Rhode, the 26-year-old winner in women's double trap, lives in El Monte, California. Her occupation, she says, is "Athlete," and she not only can wear 2004 Olympic gold to prove it, but she also owns a gold medal won at the 1996 games in Atlanta. In fact, in Atlanta she became not only the first person to attain a gold medal in the newly introduced event of women's double trap, but she also ...