Hancock joined an exclusive club in Paris, winning gold for a fourth time in his career in the men’s skeet shooting event.
PARIS, France — Vincent Hancock, the Olympic shooting legend from Georgia, is planning one more go at the Olympics — and if he claims the gold in Los Angeles in four years’ time, he would achieve something no other Olympian ever has.
Hancock joined an exclusive club in Paris, winning gold in the men’s skeet shooting event. He’s won it three other times — in Rio, London and Beijing — and only seven other Olympic athletes in history can also say they’ve won gold in the same event four times. Among them are Michael Phelps, Carl Lewis and Katie Ledecky.
The 35-year-old spoke to 11Alive’s Cheryl Preheim in Paris on Tuesday and said he “can’t pass up” going for a fifth gold in men’s skeet at the LA 2028 Olympics.
“As soon as we found …