Whether we'll admit it or not, we all have our superstitions - a lucky penny on the sidewalk here, a sidestep around a black cat there. As it turns out, the world's greatest athletes are no different, and as they travel to London you can bet that their good luck charms will be coming along for the trip.
"The main lucky charm I have is a four-leaf-clover key ring," Matt Emmons, who'll compete in the shooting competition, revealed recently. "My wife and father gave it to me at the Athens Olympics."
"I had a little unfortunate accident which cost me a gold medal," he said of a misidentification of his target, which led to Emmons firing upon the wrong bullseye. "After that event, Katie and my father-in-law Peter came up to me and said 'We really admire how you handled that situation; we want to give you this key ring...
"The main lucky charm I have is a four-leaf-clover key ring," Matt Emmons, who'll compete in the shooting competition, revealed recently. "My wife and father gave it to me at the Athens Olympics."
"I had a little unfortunate accident which cost me a gold medal," he said of a misidentification of his target, which led to Emmons firing upon the wrong bullseye. "After that event, Katie and my father-in-law Peter came up to me and said 'We really admire how you handled that situation; we want to give you this key ring...
- 7/25/2012
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