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Lynda Kiejko is featured in a new video by the Olympic Channel. Source: OlympicChannel.com
TheGunBlog.ca — Check out this video profile of Lynda Kiejko, the Olympic shooter and government adviser on gun policy. It’s the first time the Olympic Channel featured a shooter and a member of Team Canada in its new series.
Shooting is one of the original sports of the modern Olympics, having been part of the first edition of the games in 1896.
The founder of the modern Olympic Games, Baron Pierre de Coubertin, was a French pistol champion.
Lynda Kiejko, Team Canada 2016 Shooter. Credit: Heather Rattai Photography
Lynda Kiejko qualified as one of two shooters representing Canada in next month’s Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. The 35-year-old resident of Calgary will compete in the women’s 25-metre pistol and 10-metre air pistol.
Kiejko began shooting at the age of 11 after her father, a three-time Olympic shooter, now deceased, set up an air-pistol range in the basement of their home. Her home range today is the Calgary Rifle & Pistol Club. Her older sister, Dorothy, is also an Olympic shooter.
The following are excerpts from a Skype interview with Kiejko on July 14. Click here for the full transcript as a PDF.
For more information, visit Kiejko’s website at CanadianShootingStars.com, or her page on the Canadian Olympic Team’s website.
Q: What excites you the most about Rio?
Once I fire that first shot, I’m officially an Olympian. After that, I just get to shoot. I get to do what I love to do. This is such an incredible opportunity that I get to do it on such a great world stage.
