After 10 Olympic Games and 36 years, Nino Salukvadze says she's finally done. The pistol shooter from Georgia has been ever-present at the Summer Olympics since Seoul 1988, when she competed for what was still the Soviet Union. At the 2024 Olympics, she became the first female athlete ever to compete at the games 10 times. Salukvadze considered retiring after her first Olympics 36 years ago, after she'd won gold and silver medals as a 19-year-old. She nearly walked away in the 1990s, when she struggled to support her family financially in newly independent Georgia. She announced her retirement after the Tokyo Games in 2021. This time, though, she says she is done “for sure."
Georgian Shooter To Call It Quits After A Record 10 Olympic Games
Nino Salukvadze competes in the 10-meter women's air pistol event at her final Olympic Games in Paris on July 27.