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Libby Kosmala: Oldest athlete at Rio Paralympics ready to bring home gold

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-06-05/o ... ld/7477484



An Adelaide woman selected for her twelfth Paralympic Games will be the oldest athlete competing in Rio, but believes she still has what it takes to bring home gold.

At 73-years-old, air rifle shooter Libby Kosmala said age does not faze her.

"I don't feel like the oldest athlete," she said.

"I think it keeps me fit, it keeps me mentally alert because it's 95 per cent mental and 5 per cent physical."

Kosmala vowed the 2012 Paralympics would be her last, but she could not put down the rifle in her retirement.

She continued to improve and was asked to join the national shooting team once again.

Kosmala already has nine Paralympic gold medals to her name from a shooting career spanning 40 years.

let's hope she can make it no 10 gold, great to see best of luck to her.
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Ol 55

Good on her, and I hope she does well.

Where is the national television exposure for this real Australian champion, the silence is deafening, I wonder if its because its to do with shooting sports. Have barely head a whisper from any of the major channels about shooting, except when Diamond kicked him self in the mouth a few weeks ago, or that idiot tennis player makes another dickhead of himself on the world stage.

Awesome stuff yes lets hope for number 10!!!

SO good to see and like Camel said why no exposure!!!!

We see the bullshit about Princess Mary in the Danish Guard but nothing about our hometown hero's except dickhead Diamond.