{"id":56041,"date":"2016-04-17T13:47:10","date_gmt":"2016-04-17T17:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/?p=56041"},"modified":"2016-04-17T13:47:10","modified_gmt":"2023-08-19T14:39:16","slug":"olympic-shooters-ignored-stigmatized-despite-winning-more-golds-than-wrestlers-divers-gymnasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/olympic-shooters-ignored-stigmatized-despite-winning-more-golds-than-wrestlers-divers-gymnasts\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympic Shooters Ignored, &#8216;Stigmatized&#8217; Despite Winning More Golds than Wrestlers, Divers, Gymnasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_56042\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Rhode.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"olympic-shooters-ignored-stigmatized-despite-winning-more-golds-than-wrestlers-divers-gymnasts\" title=\"Olympic Shooters Ignored, 'Stigmatized' Despite Winning More Golds than Wrestlers, Divers, Gymnasts\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-56042\" title=\"Olympic Shooters Ignored, 'Stigmatized' Despite Winning More Golds than Wrestlers, Divers, Gymnasts\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-56042\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Rhode-400x266.jpg\" alt=\"Olympic shooter Kim Rhode. (Photo: LA Times)\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Rhode-400x266.jpg 400w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Rhode-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Rhode.jpg 597w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-56042\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Olympic shooter Kim Rhode. (<em>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2012\/jul\/26\/sports\/la-sp-on-olympicsshoot-20120727\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"olympic-shooters-ignored-stigmatized-despite-winning-more-golds-than-wrestlers-divers-gymnasts\" title=\"Olympic Shooters Ignored, 'Stigmatized' Despite Winning More Golds than Wrestlers, Divers, Gymnasts\">LA Times<\/a><\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Summer Olympics are in Rio this year, and the United States is looking to repeat its 2012 <a href=\"https:\/\/espn.go.com\/olympics\/summer\/2012\/medals\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"olympic-shooters-ignored-stigmatized-despite-winning-more-golds-than-wrestlers-divers-gymnasts\" title=\"Olympic Shooters Ignored, 'Stigmatized' Despite Winning More Golds than Wrestlers, Divers, Gymnasts\">total gold medal victory<\/a> over China and Russia. American shooters earned three of those medals\u2014tied with gymnasts <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_at_the_2012_Summer_Olympics\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"olympic-shooters-ignored-stigmatized-despite-winning-more-golds-than-wrestlers-divers-gymnasts\" title=\"Olympic Shooters Ignored, 'Stigmatized' Despite Winning More Golds than Wrestlers, Divers, Gymnasts\">for the third most golds<\/a> behind swimming and track and field. But as the Wall Street Journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-stigmatized-olympians-1460673461?mod=e2fb\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"olympic-shooters-ignored-stigmatized-despite-winning-more-golds-than-wrestlers-divers-gymnasts\" title=\"Olympic Shooters Ignored, 'Stigmatized' Despite Winning More Golds than Wrestlers, Divers, Gymnasts\">reported<\/a> last week, you\u2019re not likely to hear about Kim Rhode or Vincent Hancock on any <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/olympics\/2015\/08\/04\/five-americans-watch-2016-rio-olympics-simone-biles-tom-shields\/31122301\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"olympic-shooters-ignored-stigmatized-despite-winning-more-golds-than-wrestlers-divers-gymnasts\" title=\"Olympic Shooters Ignored, 'Stigmatized' Despite Winning More Golds than Wrestlers, Divers, Gymnasts\">Summer Olympic previews<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Journal, last year\u2019s gold medal count has held true for the entire history of the Olympic Games: American shooters have won more golds for the United States than every other type of Summer Olympic athlete except swimmers and track and field participants. But the public perception of guns as dangerous and frightening has kept the media and most corporate sponsors from recognizing the achievements of Team USA shooters.<\/p>\n<p>Kim Rhode, for instance, has won an Olympic medal at each of the five preceding Summer Games. Rhode participates in trap and skeet competitions and since the 1996 Games in Atlanta the 36-year-old from southern California has earned three gold medals, one silver, and one bronze. \u00a0If she wins another this year, she\u2019ll become the first American ever to win a medal at six different Olympics. Michael Phelps? He\u2019s earned medals at only three.<\/p>\n<p>But most Americans have never heard of Rhode. As she told the Journal, \u201cOur sport has an unfortunate stigma attached to it.\u201d Before the London Games, which started days after a shooting at a movie theater in Colorado, she received death threats and had to be assigned additional security.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Mitchell, executive director of USA Shooting, was once asked by a woman seated behind him on a flight, \u201cSo you teach people how to hold up 7-Elevens?\u201d He took the time to explain the skill and dedication of American shooters, and, he recalls, she left the conversation with a newfound appreciation for the sport.<\/p>\n<p>The media sought out comment from Rhode after the San Bernardino shooting, to which she responded with \u201csorrow for the victims and support for gun rights\u201d but also a question: Why should that crime have placed her in the spotlight? \u201cYou don\u2019t hear them asking Nascar drivers to comment on crimes involving cars.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Among all the successful Olympic shooters, only one has been inducted into the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame. Lones Wigger won a gold medal in 1964 for the three-position small-bore rifle competition at 50 meters and a gold in 1972 for the three-position free rifle competition at 300 meters.<\/p>\n<p>He deserves the acclaim he received, but he was less than enthusiastic in his interview with the Journal. He called his Hall of Fame nod \u201ca token thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have several other people who ought to be in consideration. But guns are political,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Political is right. Some competitors\u2014like Nathalia Granados who lives with her husband in New York\u2014isn\u2019t permitted to own the pistol she needs for the 25-meter event. Others have had difficulty transporting their firearms to competitions.<\/p>\n<p>Shooting sports are an integral part of life for thousands of Americans. But as the Journal notes, \u201cMany [Americans] are blind to the discipline and skill required, as well as the joy that elite marksmanship can stir.\u201d Our shooters succeed at every international competition they enter, and they deserve more credit and attention than they\u2019ve been given thus far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The public perception of guns as dangerous and frightening has kept the media and most corporate sponsors from recognizing the achievements of Team USA shooters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":56042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_specdata_upc":"","_specdata_placement":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6,25,593,241,10,240],"tags":[132,119,607],"featured":[],"hunt365":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-56041","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gunsamerica-authors","8":"category-competition","9":"category-current-events","10":"category-jordan-michaels","11":"category-rapid-fire","12":"category-shootbetter","13":"category-this-week","14":"tag-buzz","15":"tag-competition","16":"tag-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Olympic Shooters Ignored, &#039;Stigmatized&#039; 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