Golden Moments: Russell Mark

The Christian O’Connell Show

GOLD and iHeart Australia

Music, Music Interviews, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.7 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2024

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Every show in the lead-up to the Games in Paris, Christian is taking you back to some of the most iconic Aussie gold-medal winning moments and talking to the athletes themselves about what it was all like. It's guaranteed to give you goosebumps and get you pumped for the Games.

Today we hear from the unlikely hero; Champion Marksman, Russell Mark on his Atlanta Gold.

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0:00.0	Christian.
0:01.3	Welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
0:04.5	Okay, let's play today's brand new golden moment.
0:08.6	This is like no other athlete you've heard a story from.
0:12.6	So these golden moments, they've been lovely hearing all these Australian gold medal winners share.
0:16.9	Take us back to various games that they've won golden.
0:20.6	Russell Mark is a very unlikely athlete.
0:24.2	Have a listen to this.
0:25.0	I think he actually lives out your way, Pat.
0:27.2	He does.
0:27.8	Is he said in Werribee?
0:28.6	Yeah.
0:29.4	Sounds like it.
0:30.5	Christian O'Connell's Golden Moments,
0:32.9	counting down to the games in Paris.
0:35.5	Russell Mark on winning gold in double trap shooting at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games.
0:42.1	Shooting like any other Olympic event these days is a fully professional sport.
0:47.0	It consumed my life.
0:48.3	I'd won all the other major titles.
0:50.1	The Olympics was the last one I needed to win to be the first shooter in history to win all four of the world's majors.
0:56.0	And that played on my mind a lot.
0:58.0	I did say to the coach of our team today, I will win, win.
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