Kim Eagles cbc.ca . olympics . While most athletes train countless hours in their quest for more speed, Kim Eagles spends hours each day working toward her goal of keeping as still as possible.
Eagles is the lone pistol competitor on Canada s shooting team.
While Eagles claims her trip to Sydney is mainly to experience Olympic competition, then make a serious bid for a medal in 2004, her coach remains more optimistic about the young shooter s chances. She s just doing really, really well and that s one of the shooters that could really shine over there. If Eagles is successful, it will be the first podium finish for a Canadian shooter since Linda Thom won gold in sport pistol at the Los Angeles Games in 1984. The lure of not only competing, but doing well in the Olympics was so strong for Eagles that she took the year off from her nursing studies at Malaspina University to train on a full-time basis. She will return to school in January to finish her studies in a bid to become an operating room nurse.