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| Tracy Golmont observes as Matt Emmons tries out his new orthotics. |
Olympian Matt Emmons, who at 27 years old ranks
among the elite rifle shooters in the world, seeks something
unusual in the world of sport: stillness. Stillness broken only by
the squeeze of his finger on the trigger. Most of the time, he
successfully puts every fidget on hold. At the 2004 Athens
Olympics, he won gold in the prone competition; in Beijing he won
the silver in the same event. But at both Olympics, he also
demonstrated that stillness is rarely an absolute. He lost the
three-position event twice due to quirky lapses in motionless
focus.
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