As soon as the event finished, Emmons ran into the arms of her American husband Matthew Emmons, himself a top shooter who won the Olympic gold in the 50m Rifle Prone event at Athens.
“Thank God it’s over because I was so nervous,” said the champion, who came second behind Li in the 2006 world championships in Zagreb, Croatia.
“I had a headache this morning. I felt so terrible that I did not know how I would shoot. So to win the first gold medal of this Olympics is pretty amazing,” she said.
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