Off Track ..... Rhode feels like a beginner in Beijing

US shooter Kimberly Rhode said she feels like a beginner in Beijing - even though she has won two gold medals and a bronze in her last three Olympics.

The Californian had to switch to skeet shooting when the women's double trap was unceremoniously dropped after Athens only eight years after it was introduced. She won the first gold in Atlanta in 1996, got bronze in Sydney in 2000 and gold in Athens.

"It's like starting all over," Rhode told Reuters. "I feel like a beginner. It's totally different, different gun, different pull, different everything."