Shooters won two of Team USA’s first six medals — including its first gold — but have received little attention:
But maybe that’s a good thing.
At the London Olympics, U.S. shooters received death threats via social media, prompting organizers to provide the athletes with a security detail. That was so upsetting to Corey Cogdell-Unrein that she finished 11th, after winning bronze in Beijing.
Without that distraction on Sunday, she won bronze again in trap, after narrowly missing a shot at the gold-medal match.
[...]
Cogdell-Unrein’s bronze came a day after 19-year-old Virginia Thrasher took gold—America’s first gold of the Rio Games—in the 10-meter air rifle. Thrasher, ranked 23rd in the world, was hardly expected to finish first. America’s highest-ranked shooters will compete in the days ahead, including skeet shooter Kim Rhode, who is striving to become the first American Olympian in any sport to win a medal in six different Summer Games.
You can be sure that NBC won’t air any of the shooting matches.