How to Bring a Gun to the Olympics (If Your Sport Requires One, That Is)

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How to Bring a **** to the Olympics (If Your Sport Requires One, That Is)

Maddalena once had a desk agent become visibly frightened when she informed her, as part of normal protocol, that she had a **** in her luggage. She calmed the employee by walking her through the equipment piece by piece and explaining that she was an Olympian.

“She just physically freaked out,” said Maddalena, who along with Roe, Weisz and a few other Olympians is a member of a special marksmanship unit in the U.S. Army.

Those most at risk of freaking out, though, are the shooters themselves.

Just ask Anatoly Pikman, a former ********* ******* shooter, who was traveling to a competition in Guadalajara, Mexico, in 2015. Customs agents there were prepared for the arrival of shooters from around the world, but Pikman had a connecting flight through the city of Monterrey, where they very much were not. “That’s when the trouble started,” he said.

Pikman was initially flagged for lacking hard copies of his permits. Then, while he searched for those, security officers realized that he was carrying four times the legal number of bullets. According to Pikman, team officials had asked him to bring extra rounds to the event, and had assured him that the additional ammunition would not cause issues when he got to Guadalajara. In Monterrey, though, Pikman was told he was most likely headed to jail.

“I called my parents, my wife,” Pikman said. “Mentally, I was ready to be arrested.”

But at the 11th hour, men wearing military uniforms entered the room, confiscated the bullets and informed Pikman he was free to go. Team officials, it turned out, had been on the phone all day, calling every contact who might be able to help. Finally, someone from the ******** Foreign Ministry intervened.

Free to leave but still shaken up, Pikman did not continue to Guadalajara. He got on the first flight home the next morning. Shortly after that, he retired from international competition.

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