Rio Olympics–America’s First Gold Medal: A Good Girl with a Gun
Posted on August 7, 2016
The US won its first gold medal in the 2016 Rio Olympics when 19-year Virginia “Ginny” Thrasher–a good girl with a gun–beat out Chinese Olympians in the 10mm air rifle competition.
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