Vincent Hancock was twelve years old when he first stepped foot on an Olympic shooting range. He’d grown up watching his brother and dad compete locally and started hitting targets himself when he was ten. Still, the Georgia native didn’t know skeet shooting was an Olympic sport until someone invited them to the range where the shooting competition was held at the 1996 Atlanta Games and said the Olympics happened there five years before.Hancock wasn’t even old enough to participate in 4-H competitions, but he could practice in the place built specifically for the Olympics. He pointed a shotgun toward the sky in front of him, pulled the trigger, and hit a flying piece of clay. The next day, he returned to shoot again, but…
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