evidence: Entertainment Sports Olympics Shooter Kim Rhode on Her Six Olympics Streak ('Amazing') and Heading to Tokyo as an Alternate "We could do this for a very, very long time, and I look forward to continuing to compete," Kim Rhode tells PEOPLE By Adam Carlson Adam Carlson Adam Carlson is the senior editor for human interest at PEOPLE, which he first joined in 2015. His work has also appeared on ABC News and CNN and in The New York Times, Time magazine and elsewhere. People Editorial Guidelines Published on July 21, 2021 04:00AM EDT Kim Rhode. Photo: Sam Greenwood/Getty Almost no one in the world has been an Olympian six times. Not Kim Rhode. She had just turned 17 when she won her first gold medal in shooting in 1996 and, five Olympics later, she won her sixth medal — a bronze — in Rio de Janeiro, the first female American ever to do so. While she missed qualifying for the Tokyo Games, she is in Japan as a delegate for the International Shooting Sport Federation and could compete as a Team USA alternate.