{"id":2993,"date":"2010-04-19T18:45:57","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T23:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/?p=2993"},"modified":"2010-04-21T09:49:05","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T14:49:05","slug":"usa%e2%80%99s-kim-rhode-wins-gold-at-issf-world-cup-in-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/usa%e2%80%99s-kim-rhode-wins-gold-at-issf-world-cup-in-beijing\/2993\/","title":{"rendered":"USA\u2019s Kim Rhode Wins Gold at ISSF World Cup in Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Kim_Rhode.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2994\" title=\"Kim_Rhode\" src=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Kim_Rhode-180x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Kim_Rhode-180x300.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Kim_Rhode.jpg 381w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a>Beijing, China \u2013 America\u2019s four-time-Olympic medalist Kim Rhode has  taken one more powerful step toward realizing her Olympic dream of  making history in the 2012 London Olympic Games. Rhode won the Gold  Medal and equaled the existing world record at the 2010 ISSF World Cup  in Beijing, China. Chinese shooters Shi Hong Yan and Wei Ning were the  silver and bronze medalists.<\/p>\n<p>Rhode returned to the scene of her historic silver-medal-winning  performance and was nearly perfect throughout the competition. By  shooting a 74 of 75 targets in the first three rounds and a final round  of 24, Rhode won this competition by two targets and Rhode has earned  more valuable points in her quest to again represent the United States  in the 2012 London Games.<\/p>\n<p>If Rhode does participate in these upcoming Games and if she does  earn one more medal, she will become the first American Olympian in  history from an individual sport to have earned medals in five  consecutive Olympic Games, a feat that has taken her 20 years to  complete.<\/p>\n<p>USA teammates Amber English and Jaiden Grinnell finished in ninth and  eleventh place with scores of 69 and 68, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Rhode was very pleased with her performance and the fact that she  flirted with setting a new world record. \u201cThis is an exciting time for  me. I was hoping to get a 99 but is just was not meant to be,\u201d observed  Rhode. On competing again in Beijing, Rhode said \u201cThis city is so  incredible. I love coming back here. Things are a lot different now than  they were during the Olympic Games but it still is such an amazing  place to compete.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Next month, Rhode will compete in London at another ISSF World Cup  and she also plans to compete in Germany and Turkey for championship  competitions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing, China \u2013 America\u2019s four-time-Olympic medalist Kim Rhode has taken one more powerful step toward realizing her Olympic dream of making history in the 2012 London Olympic Games. Rhode won the Gold Medal and equaled the existing world record at the 2010 ISSF World Cup in Beijing, China. Chinese shooters Shi Hong Yan and Wei [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":2994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[397],"class_list":["post-2993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usa-shooting","tag-kim-rhode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}