{"id":3086,"date":"2012-07-31T14:25:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T14:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2012\/07\/31\/the-united-states-is-2-for-2-in-olympic\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:19:11","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:19:11","slug":"the-united-states-is-2-for-2-in-olympic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=3086","title":{"rendered":"The United States Is 2 For 2 In Olympic Skeet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:15400,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.london2012.com\\\/news\\\/articles\\\/hancock-retains-skeet-title.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.olympic.org\\\/london-2012-news&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:15401,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.london2012.com\\\/shooting\\\/event\\\/men-skeet\\\/phase=shm403100\\\/index.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.olympic.org\\\/olympic-results\\\/london-2012\\\/shooting\\\/skeet-125-targets-m&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:15402,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/sports.yahoo.com\\\/news\\\/u-profile-vincent-hancock-favored-defend-shooting-gold-154900426--oly.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/sports.yahoo.com\\\/news\\\/u-profile-vincent-hancock-favored-defend-shooting-gold-154900426--oly.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:15403,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.ergosign.com\\\/Products_11.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.ergosign.com\\\/Products_11.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Following on the heels of Kim Rhode&#8217;s gold medal in Women&#8217;s Skeet, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.london2012.com\/news\/articles\/hancock-retains-skeet-title.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sgt. Vincent Hancock became a back-to-back winner of the gold medal in Men&#8217;s Skeet<\/a>. Hancock took his first gold at the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008 and repeated this year in London.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/hancock-gold.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/hancock-gold.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>In the course of winning this gold medal, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.london2012.com\/shooting\/event\/men-skeet\/phase=shm403100\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hancock broke his own Olympic record by scoring 148 out of 150<\/a> clays. He dropped one clay in each of the two qualifying rounds but was perfect in the finals. The silver medalist, Anders Golding of Denmark, had a 146 while the bronze medalist, Nasser Al-Attiya of Qatar, had a 144.<\/p>\n<p>Sgt. Hancock is a member of the US Army Marksmanship Unit. <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/news\/u-profile-vincent-hancock-favored-defend-shooting-gold-154900426--oly.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to this profile<\/a> of him, he shoots a Beretta DT-10 with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ergosign.com\/Products_11.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ergosign stock<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following on the heels of Kim Rhode&#8217;s gold medal in Women&#8217;s Skeet, Sgt. Vincent Hancock became a back-to-back winner&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3683,3698],"class_list":["post-3086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-2012-olympic-games","tag-sgt-vincent-hancock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8223,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3086\/revisions\/8223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}