Write Up On Kimberly Rhode

[SHMIV]

Not being one to ever pay attention to the Olympics, I'd never heard of Kimberly Rhode. She's pretty impressive, if the article is to be believed.

http://takimag.com/article/muzzled_joe_ ... z4IUCUNF77

Her Wikipedia page:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Rhode

Amongst other things, Wikipedia says this:

"Kim Rhode won the bronze medal at the Rio 2016 Olympics making her the first Olympian to win a medal on five different continents as well as the first woman to medal in 6 consecutive Olympics."

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[Reverenddel]

Rock on! She's an american badass!

[Ironbear]

Rock on! She's an american badass!

And yet....

She mentors young girls. She works with the Boy Scouts. Asked why she was coaching a young girl new to the Colorado Springs Olympic Shooting Center, she said, “Because she asked me.”

Touching to see a world class athlete that isn't full of themselves...

Most impressively, she makes herself available to anyone and everyone interested in shooting—so much so that the gold on her first medal in Atlanta is starting to wear off because, whenever she poses for pictures, she drapes all her medals over the person she’s with. She passes them around the room at elementary schools so kids can touch them. In other words, she’s about as outgoing and civic-minded as it gets,...

Sounds like she truly understands that, "Nothing gold can stay", and actively works to leave a legacy.

[SHMIV]

From what I see, a role model to be sure. Had I daughters, I would have them read about her. I like this lady a lot better than that Phelps fellow.

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