American skeet shooter makes Olympic history
American Kim Rhode wins gold in London
USA Shooting called it the “biggest single day in U.S. shooting history.”
On Sunday, Californian Kim Rhode became the first American athlete to win a medal in five consecutive Olympic Games after winning gold in the women’s skeet shooting.
Rhode broke 99 of 100 targets in the finals, equaling the Olympic record. She was eight targets better than the silver medalist from China.
Rhode won in double trap in Atlanta as a teenager in 1996, took bronze in that even four years later at Sydney, re-claimed the gold at Athens in 2004 and won the silver in skeet at Beijing in 2008.
Rhode, 33, becomes the eighth American woman with at least five U.S. Olympic medals.
Read more at http://espn.go.com/olympics/summer/2012/shooting/story/_/id/8210910/2012-summer-olympics-us-kimberly-rhode-wins-skeet-gold-fifth-straight-medal
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