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RHODE PUSHES ENVELOPE

- — Katherine Fitzgerald

A double trap and skeet shooter, Kim Rhode became the first Summer Olympian — and just the second athlete ever — to win individual medals in six consecutiv­e Games. The feat dates to her Olympic debut in 1996, when she was 17. Now Rhode, 38, will try to stand alone in the record books.

“I’m going for Tokyo 2020,” she said matter-of-factly.

A seventh consecutiv­e medal would be monumental, but she might not stop there. After hear- ing the news of potential future Olympic host cities, the Los Angeles native said she might keep competing through 2028.

“I might have to stick around for that long. A hometown crowd is hard to beat,” she said.

Rhode hasn’t slowed since Rio. Two months afterward, she took the skeet title in the World Cup final in Rome. This season she has won two gold medals and a silver in World Cup competitio­n.

At the end of July, she left for Moscow to train ahead of the world championsh­ips.

But Rhode’s accomplish­ments extend beyond the sport. She is working on building a shooting range in Southern California. Along with her husband, Mike, Rhode owns and operates a recording studio, and she’s taking time to travel with their trilingual 4-year-old son.

“The year after the Olympics ... this is the year we do all that daredevil-type stuff. We go skydiving. We go skiing and snowboardi­ng and really push the envelope,” she said with a laugh.

“I guess I’m a little bit of a thrill seeker.”

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