Shooting for Love
The scene is a familiar one now at the Olympic shooting hall: Matt Emmons and Katerina Emmons, hugging and smooching after yet another medal.
Matt took center stage Friday, winning the silver in the 50-meter prone rifle. That makes three medals in all this year for the husband and wife – Katy won gold and silver in her two rifle events.
“You can’t do much better than a gold and a silver,” Matt Emmons said. “We’re a team. The more medals we get as a team, the better. I don’t care who wins them.”
They met at the 2004 Olympics in Athens, after Matt squandered a big lead at the end of the three-position rifle event. He had fired at the wrong target, an unimaginable mistake, and Katy wanted to offer condolences.
They were married last year and have split time between his country and hers. Matt is an American; Katy is from the Czech Republic.
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Nice story, but don’t they know that guns are evil, and suit only evil purposes?
Tim – Shooting a buck during hunting season is evil??
Guns are inanimate objects. They are incapable of being evil… they are just tools which can be used for either good or evil purposes based on their user’s intentions.
Matt and Mary – I couldn’t agree more. I was sarcastically echoing a few contributors here, you won’t here me say that for real!
The real point: This could be the perfect marriage.
He could live in the US and she in Czech Republic.